Question

I have a small dilemma.

I have been working on a project for almost a year now and had an old domain name. Not knowing how Google has indexed the whole site under the old domain which has worried me. I want to put the site up on my new domain name and I think doing a 301 is the way forward. I will need to do this on every dynamic page. The good thing is the page structure is identical.

Any advice on the best way to do this would be massively appreciated.

Answer 1

This will redirect everything from olddomain.com to newdomain.com:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?olddomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]

You can put that mod_rewrite code into your olddomain’s .htaccess.