Redirects and Google when moving sub-site to new domain

  • Resolved Robin73

    (@robin73)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there,

    I’m wondering if anyone can give me clear intructions on what to do to ensure a smooth transition in terms of SEO now that I have moved a sub-site of WP multisite to its own separate domain?

    I’ve created the new site at https://www.devonmathstuition.co.uk/

    and moved it from https://www.robinandrews.net/devonmathstuition/

    What I want to know it how to handle the rediricts (eg do I created a folder at https://robinandrews.net/devonmathstuition/ and put an index.php there with a redirect, and if so, do I need to do this for each separate page?)

    I’d rather use php than .htaccess if possible because .htaccess is voodoo magic to me.

    Then, what about Google? I’ve registered the new site on my webmaster tools account, and read some of the documentation, but there seems to be some problem mentioned if one of the sites is in a subdirectory, which the oroginal one in this case is (in a virtual sense…)

    Any help much appreciated,

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    I’d rather use php than .htaccess if possible because .htaccess is voodoo magic to me.

    I think you may find this a quicker solution than PHP. I’m pretty sure this .htaccess file would work if you put it in that /devonmathstuition/ directory.

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.devonmathstuition.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

    That’s how I migrated from an old server name to a new URL years ago.

    Thread Starter Robin73

    (@robin73)

    That’s great. Thank you very much!

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