Redirected link to new URL shows old URL in the address

  • I have set up a redirect for a client who changed her domain name on her site. The redirect is set up in CPanel, and it works, but the old domain name is showing up in the address instead of the new one. Clicking anywhere in the site goes to a page with the new URL, so there’s no problem staying there, but it looks odd to see the old URL in the address bar when the old URL redirects to the current site URL. How can I change it so the new URL shows up in the address?

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  • Hi David ??

    Can you share the link so I can take a look? No problem if not, but without the address I could only speculate as to why this is happening.

    Thread Starter David Borrink

    (@davidborrink)

    Sure. Here is a Pinterest pin that is linked to her old URL: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/294915475578258220/

    Take that link and you’ll arrive at her site on that page, but her old URL is in the address bar. Click on any link in her site, and it will go to her new URL at ticiamessing.com. I’m assuming that the arrival link is on ticiamessing.com and not adventuresinmommydom.org which is the old URL. That URL was renamed and is working fine. I have a redirect set up for that in CPanel.

    It looks like the redirect is working correctly for domain but only matches the domain exactly without any slugs. E.g.

    This can be confirmed with the following wget commands:

    wget -SO- -T 5 -t 1 https://adventuresinmommydom.org | more
--2021-08-07 12:56:45--  https://adventuresinmommydom.org/
Resolving adventuresinmommydom.org (adventuresinmommydom.org)... 216.158.227.83
Connecting to adventuresinmommydom.org (adventuresinmommydom.org)|216.158.227.83|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
  content-type: text/html
  content-length: 707
  date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 11:56:45 GMT
  server: LiteSpeed
  location: https://ticiamessing.com/
Location: https://ticiamessing.com/ [following]
    wget -SO- -T 5 -t 1 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/science-sundays/ | more
--2021-08-07 13:03:03--  https://adventuresinmommydom.org/science-sundays/
Resolving adventuresinmommydom.org (adventuresinmommydom.org)... 216.158.227.83
Connecting to adventuresinmommydom.org (adventuresinmommydom.org)|216.158.227.83|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
  content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  x-pingback: https://ticiamessing.com/xmlrpc.php
  link: <https://ticiamessing.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
  link: <https://ticiamessing.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/2521>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json"
  link: <https://ticiamessing.com/?p=2521>; rel=shortlink
  x-litespeed-cache-control: public,max-age=28800
  x-litespeed-tag: ec0_HTTP.200,ec0_page,ec0_URL.384284c2754c2473cebd747c8e5bbc00,ec0_Po.2521,ec0_PGS,ec0_
  etag: "100763-1628337785;;;"
  x-litespeed-cache: miss
  transfer-encoding: chunked
  date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 12:03:05 GMT
  server: LiteSpeed

    Does CPanel offer the option to do a “Wild Card Redirect”? If so, this should redirect all pages on the old domain to the new domain.

    Does CPanel offer the option to do a “Wild Card Redirect”? If so, this should redirect all pages on the old domain to the new domain.

    yes Cpanel does support wildcard, it’s right above the add button in the redirect section

    Thread Starter David Borrink

    (@davidborrink)

    Okay, I’ll set up CPanel to do with a wild card and see if that helps.

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