Questions tagged [redirects]
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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Redirect double-slash "//" URLs using a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file
Google Search Console is giving me the Duplicate without user-selected canonical error for URLs that contain an unnecessary double slash // in them, like:
https://university.edu/~user//dir/
To avoid ...
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Google Search Console reporting 404 errors on /page/x pages which is not a 404
hopefully someone here can shed a light on this. Search console on one of my site is reporting a 404 to a bunch of pages on my site but they are not actually 404s.
Here's an example:
examplesite.com/...
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Redirect from website.com to website.com/keyword1-keyword2/
When a user visits my page through the URL website.com, I want it to be redirected to website.com/keyword1-keyword2/, as I have all the relevant information and SEO power in the index.html file of ...
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Enom DNS URL redirect doesn't work - HTTPS redirect does not work
I am not running a webserver, and I simply want to redirect x.mysite.com to a Calendly link. I did this using the Host records - I set it up so x.mysite.com redirects to Calendly.com/mycalendly. ...
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Redirect to HTTPS only works the first time on Nginx
I'm currently trying to setup redirection from HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx.
Used ports:
HTTP: 8085
HTTPS: 443
When I access the site via http://example.de:8085 initially, I am correctly forwarded to ...
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Why is my regex redirection failing?
Source: ^help-msa.publictalksoftware.co.uk/(.*)
Target: https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/help-msa/$1
For example:
https://help-msa.publictalksoftware.co.uk/msa-overview.html
should redirect to:
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Redirect lost control of search results
Our domain is: suncitypickleballclub.org
We have moved our website to a cloud service on CourtReserve.com
Our domain has a hard (301) redirect to: https://app.courtreserve.com/Online/Portal/Index/9090
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How to solve chain of redirects
I have WordPress site where we use alias www.example.com/login to have nice login URL so it redirects user to standard WordPress login URL which is wp-login.php.
For the authentication we use service ...
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Moving from HTTP to HTTPS in Google Search Console (October 2023)
In Google Search Console I have previously created property with HTTP protocol and indexed my site.
Now I have full 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS for my site with just couple of pages.
Have ROBOTS....
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When I switch on multilingual in Hugo, the main directory is redirected to the default language
When you configure the defaultContentLanguageInSubdir setting with true, it causes the site to automatically redirect to the default language version, example.com/en, when accessing the root directory,...
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SEO issue - Page with redirect - on Hugo website [closed]
I have a static website (Hugo on Netlify).
On Google Web Console in Page indexing I have 190 pages not indexed, but only 78 indexed.
When I analyzed my website with Ahrefs, it showed that my pages ...
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Building a webcomic: How to redirect URL to latest slug using htaccess?
I'm inexperienced with coding.
I have a comic that creates new pages as /?pg=pagenumber
I want visitors to be redirected to the latest page. So when they type: https://example.com they get redirected ...
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Nginx not redirecting to specific page
I want visitors to domain1.example to end up at a specific page on domain3.example. For testing, the DNS of domain1.example points at domain2.example and I have the following Nginx rule on domain2....
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wordpress - all URLs with no trailing slash redirect to include slash
Just started a new job and the company website is built on Wordpress. All URLs seem to have a trailing backslash for example https://www.digitallearninginstitute.com/courses/professional-diploma/
We ...
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Page Indexing > Page with Redirect to Google Search Console
I need help. My website URL is like https://example.com/.
I have a problem with page indexing with redirect.
There are shown Page Indexing > Page with Redirect in Google Search Console. That's why ...
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How do I remove a subdomain that is shared to another webhost?
One of my team members had a separate webhost from mine and he suggested to host a website from a subdomain on his webhost, we did that and it was all ok untill the team disbanded and now I want the ...
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Namecheap + Format.com = DNS issue
Problem: my domain often goes nowhere when entered into a browser without the leading www. (Below, my real domain is changed to 'example')
I've had a domain on NameCheap for a while and was using ...
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Tracking links going to 404 pages
I have a price comparison website with quite a few tracking links like this:
<a href="/go.php?id=6000579" class="fh-price-go-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ...
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How to properly set up google search indexing for site which requires authentication
I was not sure of the best way to describe this in the title but my scenario is the following:
Every page on our site requires authentication and will redirect unauthenticated users to a login page ...
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How can we redirect using htaccess and DNS together with Google Sites?
I have updated a site and some of the old links are no longer referring to the right place (404). I wonder how I can do it through DNS and .htaccess.
As I understand Sites does not support redirecting ...
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Google does not index my main page [duplicate]
I was trying to index the main page of my site but it is not successful because I have a url with noindex and some redirected pages. Why is this influencing the main url ?
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301 Redirects With Question Marks in URL
We have just moved to a new website and discovered that our 301 redirects do not work. The URLs from the old website contain question marks which I can now see cause issues with redirects.
To ...
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Webmaster Tools page inspection failed
In Bing Webmaster Tools I have inspected the homepage URL of my website. I get the following error:
Crawl
Last crawl attempted
27 Apr 2023 at 03:00
Crawl allowed?
Yes
Page Fetch
Failed
The Inspected ...
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Redirecting old domain to two new domains
The issue at hand is redirecting selected pages from the olddomain to the newdomain1 and newdomain2. Doing one domain is fairly straightforward, but it's different when handling two domains.
Any ...
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Are there security issues with using wwwizer solution to redirect to root domain?
I have a Google Site to which I want to point my domain, hosted by a third party. It was (relatively) easy to establish a CNAME for the www subdomain, but I haven't been able to point my root domain ...
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Can I undo a domain level 301 redirect? It's causing a slight traffic drop
I have recently set up a redirect from an aged domain to a live domain using a 301 redirect. I created an acquisition press release on the live site and the old domain (which I built a home page for ...
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Implement redirect for domain from Namecheap's domain control panel
I have two domains, I want one domain to redirect all URLs to another domain. How do I do it in the Namecheap control panel?.
Does setting up redirect in domain control panel means users can visit the ...
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Google reverting to indexing HTTP after moving website to HTTPS
A month ago, I transferred my website from HTTP to HTTPS and completed all necessary modifications, including implementing a 301 redirect to redirect all old links to the new HTTPS version. I also ...
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Remove all redirects introduced by a WordPress hack [closed]
There is this online scam website that's causing great damage. From the many complaints online, it's obvious that people are losing thousands of dollars every month on the site.
I've decided to stop ...
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How does redirecting a subdomain to a new domain affect the original root domain
Domain A currently has a subdomain B. Subdomain B is being redesigned and launching on its on domain C.
Should the redirects be created to Domain C individually or at the sun domain level within ...
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In the GSC page indexing issues: Found a URL with a two different file names
Strange URLs in Search Console's Page with a redirect, Alternate page with Proper Canonical Tag'
Search Console is showing 240 excluded pages with 'Page with a redirect, Alternate Page with Proper ...
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Moving to new domain and site
I have an old web site www.domain1.example (IP: x1.x1.x1.x1) hosted on GoDaddy and created a new one with new domain www.domain2.example (IP: x2.x2.x2.x2) hosted on Hostinger. Both domains purchased ...
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302 redirect from WebSphere when the request has come via a load balancer
I have the following setup:
HTTPS request -> AWS ALB -> Mapped to HTTP (one of two possible ports) -> Websphere 9.0.5
This works fine, except:
When I go to my url without a trailing slash (e....
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How can I remove the indexing to my site of a secondary domain no longer owned by me whose only function was to redirect to the main one from Google?
I had a series of domains that redirected to a main domain (let's call it A) where the website is located. One of them is no longer owned by me, and a few hours after being removed from the previous ...
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Forwarding GoDaddy domain and all its URLs to a new domain
I have two domains on GoDaddy (a.example, b.example). I went to the a.com DNS administration and forwarded it to b.example using a 301 type.
If I go to a.example, it correctly redirects me to b....
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Redirected exact-match domain names for SEO?
Google usually favors domain name exact matches.
For example, if your domain is mailonline.com, when you search "mail online", it would recognize the similarity between the two and likely ...
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How to redirect old domain URLs without the old website?
My client deleted their website and do not have a backup of it on the old domain. I need to redirect their old domain URLs in Google Search to the new domain. I have access to their old domain and ...
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Can I redirect a page on wordpress to a subdomain
I want to redirect mysite/thispage to subdomain.anothersite?
I am offering webhosting on a page on my site but info is on a subdomain. I own both the site and subdomain.
Hope that makes sense.
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How can I redirect a PDF to home page?
I'm trying to redirect from an URL like this:
https://example.com/images/qr/brochure.pdf
to the home page of the site: https://example.com
I tried using this code in a .htaccess file, and added the ...
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How can we redirect all pagination URL to main page
We want to redirect https://www.example.com/blog/category/mobile-application/page/2/ to https://www.example.com/blog/category/mobile-application/ or all blog category pagination to the main category ...
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Check if old URLs that are redirected are receiving traffic and they are active [duplicate]
So I took over a web with almost 10.000 redirects created in .htaccess file which is ridiculous.
The domain is more than 15 years old.
I want to remove redirects that are no longer needed for the ...
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Will redirecting links from an old domain to a new one strengthen the new domain when they are in the same industry?
I sold my company some 18 months ago. The new owner has renamed the company and is using a new domain for the websites. My new website is only a year old.
If I obtain this old domain from the new ...
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All my redirects are giving me a nice 301. Except the "http://www", for some reason it results in 302. I think I tried all the combinations already
I wanted to ask you for your help. I found this answer that is recommended on the internet - Forward naked domain with URL path for my Google Domain but it seems that it is already outdated.
I tried a ...
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SEO effect for Blocking entire site for a country and allowing only one page
Need your valuable guidance.
Suppose via Cloudflare if we add a redirect rule for a specific country. Where if any traffic comes from that country, it will get redirected to a special subfolder ...
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Is there a way to redirect a domain with a slug to a new domain with a new slug on Namecheap?
So I'm no expert with domain directs, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but here we go:
What we want to do is direct our site's blog posts from our old site (with old root domain and slug) to ...
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Will creating a 301 redirect from old domain to new domain affect Gmail?
I've rebranded a business so I want to redirect the existing site to a new domain name - presumably by setting up a 301 redirect(?) - so anyone who types in xxx1.com (old domain) will be redirected to ...
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.htaccess redirect php WHMCS cart ID
For WHMCS I am trying to redirect products to another ID and subdomain.
How can I create a .htaccess that will redirect
https://www.example.com/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=17
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https://clients....
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Is there a term for URL 'autocorrect' redirection?
I stumbled upon the fact that my website can 'autocorrect' URLs, when they are close enough to an actual URL:
E.g.
https://example.com/widgets/metric-time.htm
Can also be reached by:
https://example....
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WordPress doesn't identify the subfolder
I have a subfolder with a separate WordPress running on it. When I click on a link which should lead to the destination in the new website (the subfolder) it reads everything except the mentioned ...
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SEO effect of http-equiv="REFRESH" for redirect
Question Moving Pages to New URL's - Unable to Use 301 Redirects to Tell Search Engines The Pages Have Moved got me thinking - If there is only access to change the content of a page to affect ...
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