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.htaccess redirect

How exactly, with a .htaccess file i’m presuming, would i redirect people from this URL: http://blog.twostepmedia.co.uk/win-traffic-with-charlie-sheen-and-the-yahoo-boss-api/ to something like http://www.twostepmedia.co.uk/blog/win-traffic-with-charlie-sheen-and-the-yahoo-boss-api/

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

You’re better off using a rewrite rule in your .htaccess of the blog.twostepmedia.co.uk domain.

Something like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10 # this will just stop and bugs in the code causing a infinite loop
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://www.twostopmedia.co.uk/blog/$1 [R=301,NC]

The rewrite rule grabs whatever follows ‘blog.twostepmedia.co.uk/’ and rewrites to the new url. The [R=301,NC] sets this to be a permanent redirect, which means you won’t get penalised from duplicate content by search engine spiders.

Hope that helps 🙂