A page, link or command that points URL requests to another URL in the world wide web. Redirects can be either server-side or client-side through the use of javascript.
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ecommerce item deleted by user, 301 rediret to HOME PAGE or 404 not found?
I know this question is someway similar to this one where they reccomend using 404, but after reading this other one where they suggest to use 301 when changing site urls (in the specific case was due ...
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What are the most commonly used and basic Apache htaccess redirects?
This question is here so we can offer users who are looking for information on how to make one or more common or basic redirects in Apache using the htaccess file. All future questions pertaining to ...
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Subfolder won't permenantly redirect to subdomain
Right now I have the following code to redirect all non-www URLs to www URLs:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Besides that redirection, ...
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What is domain “masking” or “cloaking”? Why should it be avoided for a new web site?
What exactly is the domain name "masking" or "cloaking" offered by some hosting companies, (as opposed to redirection), and what are the various reasons it should be avoided when setting up a new web ...
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Redirect based on country
Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.:
www.example.com/us
www.example.com/uk
www.example.com/ca
and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go ...
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Redirect from SSL HTTPS to HTTP (NO SSL)
Many of my visitors have bookmarked my site already with https://mydomain.com. Under the bad advice of a programmer I have put my whole site (Joomla) using SSL.
I do not sell anything or provide any ...
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.htaccess Redirect Old Threads
I have moved to mybb to vanilla and want to redirect old threads to the new format, so the indexed threads on google aren't lost.
The old format is
showthread.php?tid=3003
Whereas the new ...
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Is it better to have an ErrorDocument 404 redirect back to the homepage or a standard 404 error page?
We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout.
The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a ...
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.htaccess permanent redirect to www
I have a WordPress installation that is not redirecting URLs not starting with www.
Example: http:// example.com/dir/ doesn't send to http:// www.example.com/dir/ instead goes to http:// example.com/
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Redirect/Rewrite Subdomain to Subfolder
I'm trying to redirect a subdomain to a subfolder e.g. forums.domain.com to www.domain.com/forums
Note that I started the forums in the subfolder format but worried that members might mistakenly try ...
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How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?
I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is.
I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com
On that domain I have 3 ...
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Changed url from non www to www…Google Indexing
I have recently changed (about 1 week ago) my url from non www version to www version.
I told my hosting company to do this and they did it successfully all my urls are directed to www version. But ...
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Is there any way to redirect one domain to another via DNS settings keeping the path information?
For example, my domain is example.com and when someone navigates to example.com/sample/page.htm, I want it to redirect to test.com/sample/page.htm.
I know that this can probably easily be done using ...
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How does redirects affect SEO?
I'm currently working on a new landing page for this site. I want the landing page to replace the existing front page of the site. However I don't want to lose the Page Rank of the current front page ...
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How can my site detect mobile phones and switch visitors to a mobile Domain?
My Question is that when user enter the website: http://www.example.com then they will just go to automatically to http://www.example.mobi how can i do this .. is their any technique behind that.
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.htaccess redirect to subfolder in different domain, maintaining old domain in the URL
Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work.
I have a WordPress site hosted in ...
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.htaccess rule to redirect from 404 to search results
When a user (or a bot) request on non existing page, I want to redirect him to the search results. I prefere to do it with the .htaccess file using something like:
ErrorDocument 404 ...
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Moving from Subdirectory to Subdomain structure
I have a website (powered by Rails/Postgres and nginx) where I had setup a blog and a coupons section as:
http://myrailsapp.com/blog/ http://myrailsapp.com/coupons/
Blog is powered by wordpress and ...
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How can redirect pages from old core PHP site to new Joomla site?
We have our old site into core PHP and we have developed it again into Joomla 1.5 last year (because of some limitations we have to build it into 1.5). Now the problem is the URL of sites changed as ...
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How to make so that a first domain name redirects to second one but the URL displays the first domain name?
I have first domain name registered with some domain name registrar, for which I don't have web hosting account, only dns hosting.
I have second domain name registered with godaddy, with web hosting ...
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Site-wide redirect with Tomcat4
Disclaimer: My webmastering experience is almost nil. Apologies if anything seems ignorant - if it sounds that way, it probably is.
My employer is in the middle of switching over from one version of ...
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changing CNAME record, will it affect existing email addresses
I need to forward a domainA to redirect to domainB. I've been doing this via CNAME records but for this situation I need to leave email addresses for domainA intact and unaffected while redirecting ...
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Redirect from the main page on multilanguage site
I've decided to start developing multilingual web site. Now I'm thinking about the structure. The idea is to use a simple algorithm to find out what language is most interesting to the visitor when he ...
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What's the advantage in purchasing new hosting purely for 301 redirections
As a follow on from How do I adjust our "default" domain I am about to setup 301 redirections from a selection of TLD to our recently selected default domain.
Currently ALL of our TLDs ...
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GWT “Big traffic change for top URL”
I recently received an email from GWT saying that one of my URL's traffic has suddenly dropped. As it turned out the traffic to the whole site has drastically dropped, from some 300+ unique visitors ...
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Blogger not redirecting
I bought a new domain staygeo.com and pointed my blogger blog to gis.staygeo.com. I have checked the box in blogger publishing settings saying Redirect staygeo.com to gis.staygeo.com. Still if I just ...
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Why my domain redirect on Google Apps is returning 404?
I have a configuration in the Google Apps Control Panel (dcc.securepaynet.net) to redirect tombrito.com to http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4499244H9.
It worked fine until ...
