How do I do a redirect?

Zascar

I had a wordpress blog on a website: www.oldsite.com/folder

I have moved it to a new domain: www.newsite.com

What is the best form of redirect? I know I can do a html but its not that effective. I heard of a 310 suing htaccess but not sure how to do it.

Can a 301 redirect www.oldsite.com/folder/post-title-1 to www.newsite.com/post-title-1 ??

Can anyone show me how to do this?
Thanks

hobochris

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://example.com/" />

Change the 5 to how many seconds you wish to wait before redirecting and the url to your new url.

Webmonkey

Easiest and cleanest way to do with HTTP headers using PHP

[php]
header('location: http://www.newsite.com');
[/php]

Make sure to place right at top of index.php before any content rendered out, before headers sent.


Edit - Ok I see what you mean, you want to mirror the links off old site to new one. This can be done using Mod Rewrite htacess files.

Try this htaccess file in your root directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Zascar

Thanks Webmonkey that worked perfectly!
Cheers :-D

Webmonkey

No probs!