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Hampstead
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 11:49
I need to forward users from a defunct site to a new site. They are not copies of each other. One is taking over and the other will be shut down.
It's easy to 301 the entire site using htaccess, but what I also want to do is to have certain page requests within the old site forward to a relevant page on the new site.
The standard 301 redirect code for the htaccess file will override this by sending anything at the old domain to the new domain.
I also wanted to have the old site moved to a different directory on the old URL so that it could be accessed as domain.com/legacy2008 for instance.
Is this possible using mod rewrite?
If so, help with syntax would be much appreciated.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 19:12
Yes. You will need several rules and they must all use the same Apache module in order to guarantee the order they are processed in.
Put the more detailed rules first and they will operate first for those specific URLs.
Put the general site-wide "catch-all" rules last. They will pick up all the stuff that didn't get done by the earlier rules.
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Hampstead
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 20:44
Ah - that's the trick.
What about having the site in legacy directory? Won't that get forwarded too?
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 21:15
Move the old site to the folder, and set your redirects so that they do not occur for URLs in that folder.
No idea how people will ever find the old site at new URLs if the old site itself has new URLs?? I guess you will need to keep the root index page of the old site live and offer links to the old site (at new URLs) and new site (on new domain) from there.
Beware the duplicate content filter if the content is similar.
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Hampstead
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 22:02
They're different sites.
One company has bought another and want to use the redirects so as to keep any of the existing traffic whilst shutting down the site. They want the legacy site so that they can access it themselves if they need to remind themselves of the content.
They don't want people to find the old site in it's new position. A robots text and tag will be used to stop accidental indexing.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 22:15
If you really don't want it to be found, then the robots.txt method is too weedy.
Put the old site behind a password log-in using .htaccess/.htpasswd instead.
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Hampstead
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 22:25
Good idea.
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Hampstead
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 22:27
I'm still a bit confused on the syntax though.
I'm not sure how to stop the legacy site redirecting because there will be a catch all.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 23:20
Use ! as a prefix for "NOT" in the RewriteCond.
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Hampstead
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Posted: 2008-Jun-12 23:24
Thanks - I'll test it out.
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