Comments on: Easy Wordpress .htaccess 301 Redirect

By: WordPress Mover

WordPress Mover — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:22:03 +0000

If you have access to cPanel, look for the “Redirect” menu option for a simple, GUI driven way to accomplish the same thing.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:16:52 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for all the help…
In the end, and after lots of research, it wasn’t the redirect that was the problem. It was the receiving site’s htaccess that needed editing.

I added the following code just before the #BEGIN Wordpress

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Redirect permanent /index.html
http://www.site name.com/

After that the redirect was seamless. I just needed the redirect for a .html to pick up a .php file, and this did the trick.

Thanks again, and hope this helps others

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:31:17 +0000

Michael, try to add this code in htaccess:

Redirect 301 /index.html http://yournewwebsite.com/index.php

Test then with some tools if the 301 redirect is fine cause I’m not 100% sure.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:49:14 +0000

Hello,
I’m missing something… I’ve used your code in the .htaccess of the original site, and it does redirect. Problem is that its redirecting to index.html, and my newsite WP uses index.php…
so i get a 404 error, page not found

HELP. I’ve been searching everywhere, and i know i’m just missing something silly.

thank

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:58:53 +0000

This was very useful. I will add, changing all the pictures / file paths from the old domain trough phpmyadmin, details here: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/12/01/search-and-replace-in-wordpress-mysql-database/ (it will replace the domain name). And don’t forget to do some tweaks from webmaster tools to tell google of this move.

By: yousaf

yousaf — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:57:53 +0000

thanks for the article,
But I have some questions, can you pls answer theme?
1. Will I loose my google pagerank using this redirection?
2. Will the old blog be opened and then redirect to the new blog or is it transparent?
3. Can i delete all files and database except .htaccess file?
Please reply soon because i want to migrate.

By: Parneix

Parneix — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:02:27 +0000

Hi,

I’m moving a Wordpress blog from mydomain.net/blog to mydomain.net (so basically just moving it to the root). I’ve tried many command line for the .htaccess file, but they all failed to redirect to the root.

1) I didn’t have any .htaccess file before. I created one just for this. Is it the only command line I should use or should there be other stuff in there?
2) The .htaccess file should be place in mydomain.net or mydomain.net/blog ?
3) Just for the record, I didn’t assign a www to mydomain.net. I choose the option “leave it alone”. So both are supposed to work.

Thanks for the tips by the way.

Prnx

By: Gagan

Gagan — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:14:11 +0000

hey mate!
Nice post but can we use .htaccess to redirect traffic between sub-domain and root on the same server? I am having this problem.
What I have done is—I have moved my wordpress blog on the root from a subdomain and deleted the sub-domain….now google is not optimizing my website as it thinks that I have copied the content and using it at another place and hence it has penalized me!…I have lost the whole SEO. Please help urgently…i’ll re-install sub-domain and can quickly use .httaccess redirects, if possible…please help?

By: BlogCrafted

BlogCrafted — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:07:08 +0000

Hi Sweta, try:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/home/$ http://yoursite.com/

By: Sweta

Sweta — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:04:59 +0000

Hi,
I am a software developer and use wordpress extensively to build various websites for our company clients.
The redirect process explained here will redirect everything but is there a way to redirect only one page? Something like redirecting http://yoursite.com/home/ to http://yoursite.com/ ?