How do I redirect all 404 URLs to a subdomain with same URL format using WordPress?

Question

How do I redirect Pages from the main site with 404 Status to the Subdomain with same URL Structure?

This for example:

https://www.example.com/rent

this returns a 404 Error and must be redirected to:

http://subdomain.example.com/rent

Is this possible on WordPress? If it is how can we do it?

Answer 1

What you are looking to accomplish can be done via proxy. It sounds like your server is Apache because there are several mentions of htaccess without correction (Nginx doesn't use it).

I am not an Apache expert (I use Nginx), so I can't give you an exact example solution. I have only implemented reverse proxies with Nginx.

I recommend reviewing Apache's docs on the topic (below) and asking this on ServerFault.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/reverse_proxy.html https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html

There are several considerations you should think about:

• Handling SSL
• Setting the proper headers
• Catching 404s

If you have a 404 page you could use that url instead of catching the requests.

For the record, I realize this is not an exact answer, but I don't have enough reputation to comment yet.

Answer 2

There are several ways to add redirects for specific pages to a WordPress blog. There are plugins and extensions to WordPress that will allow redirects. http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-creating-redirects-in-wordpress/ recommends two of them.

I would take the approach of editing the .htaccess file and just putting the redirect in there:

Redirect permanent /rent http://subdomain.example.com/rent

Answer 3

This is the best plugin for managing 404 errors and redirections in WordPress. Very easy to use. https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

It isn't automatic, so you will need to track 404s and add the redirections. Easy enough.

Answer 4

.htaccess Rule:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com/notFound.html

Answer 5

Do this in .htaccess file in main subdirectory

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sub.example.com/sub$1 [R=permanent,L]