redirect / forwarding to new domain

I’m slightly fuzzy on what precisely you need (feel free to clarify), but if you’ve moved your entire site to a new directory, you may wish to set a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file via FTP. There will probably already be a .htaccess file in the root directory.

The following steps will redirect any URL beginning with sarahhart.ca/boutique to the equivalent URL beginning with sarahhart.ca/blog. (Again, if this isn’t what you are looking for, feel free to say.)

Step 1: Insert the following new lines (put them at the start of the file to make sure they take priority):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?boutique/(.*)$ /blog/$1 [R,NC,L]

Just note that browser caching means that you may not see the redirection immediately.

Step 2: Once you have verified that this is working as you intended, change the above lines to this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?boutique/(.*)$ /blog/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

The additional =301 will instruct browsers and search engines that your content has moved permanently to the new location.

(In principle you can actually skip straight to step 2, but I recommend doing it in two steps, because it can be a pain to undo 301 redirects if you make a mistake or you want to change something.)

If you just want to redirect then you can use .htaccess to do that.

for example:
Redirect 301 /oldstuff.html https://www.yourwebsite.com/newstuff.html

sunil333’s directions aren’t wrong, but C W’s are the ones you want to follow here ??

Thank you so much!!

I have a few lines in my .htaccess file already, can you let me know where I should put your code C W?

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Home.html

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

It’s probably best to put the code at the top of the .htaccess file, on new lines. This will ensure that it takes priority over any conflicting rule.