can a 301 redirect do this?

  • Resolved krissydb

    (@krissydb)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    I might have done something dumb…

    I had about 30 domains with GoDaddy and given their recent clawback of promo codes I hastily decided as an expiry date was looming to move my domain to another provider namecheap thinking I could easily point it back to my wordpress installation. So I moved 5one9design.com to namecheap. However I had been using it as an Addon Domain before at Godaddy which pointed to the folder kristinabradley.com/5one9design which worked seamlessly as though it were hosted at 5one9design.com

    Throughout the day I have realized that pointing it seamlessly back there is not as easy as I thought. I have spoken with namecheap who advised me that doing a “url frame” was a form of 301 redirect but a) no it isn’t according to what I read on the net for seo purposes and b) it doesn’t work because I assume all my internal settings use 5one9design.com as the url string.

    Is there no way to add a 301 redirect using another registrar in the same seamless way an addon domain works? Cname? htaccess? My brain is now fried so I’m not thinking straight anymore and can’t find a reasonable solution.
    It seems like its going to create a loop and require me to update the url string to kristinabradley.com/5one9design and I just don’t want to.

    Regrettably I can’t transfer back to GD for 60 days now. ??

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  • I had been using it as an Addon Domain…kristinabradley.com/5one9design…though it were hosted at 5one9design.com

    You had been doing that by having 5one9design.com assigned to and pointed at /server/account/folder-whatever-your-host-calls-it/5one9design/, and now you have 5one9design.com assigned to and pointed at /server/different-account/??what??. What you have done is what is called ‘Moving WordPress”, and that is beyond the scope of normal .htaccess.

    How to proceed first depends upon where (what folder path) your domain is assigned and pointed, then it should be relatively easy to update WordPress to accept and recognize that path.

    Thread Starter krissydb

    (@krissydb)

    I didn’t actually move the WordPress installation, it stayed right it was, this was a DNS issue not a WordPress issue. I have found a solution, thanks anyways!

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