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

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 2

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 3

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]