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  • pimpware
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2006
    • 1673
    #1

    Help with the best redirecting method

    Hi folks,

    I could bet my question is somewhere answered but the search function is not working.

    I have a domain.com wordpress blog with a couple of old sub-domains(niches), each one a wordpress blog.

    It happens that I want to get rid of almost all of those sub-domain blogs, and redirect them to the main blog, and my question is what is the best redirecting method?

    Thanks
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    • MakeMeGrrrrowl
      Grrrrrrrrr
      • Oct 2002
      • 4984
      #2
      Originally posted by pimpware
      Hi folks,

      I could bet my question is somewhere answered but the search function is not working.

      I have a domain.com wordpress blog with a couple of old sub-domains(niches), each one a wordpress blog.

      It happens that I want to get rid of almost all of those sub-domain blogs, and redirect them to the main blog, and my question is what is the best redirecting method?

      Thanks
      This is the one I use.

      https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

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        • Marvin_AWB
          Registered User
          • Dec 2014
          • 62
          #3
          I would set up a 301 redirect. It bascially tells the search engines: "this site moved permanently" and is the standard procedure for what you are planning to do.

          You can use a WordPress plugin like Grrrrowl suggested or manually edit your .htaccess file. It's usually just a few lines of code.
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            • pimpware
              Confirmed User
              • Jan 2006
              • 1673
              #4
              Originally posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl
              This is the one I use.

              https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
              MakeMeGrrrrowl thanks for your sugestion, that plugin looks pretty good but at this time I want to keep the plugin numbers at minimum for performance reasons.


              Originally posted by Marvin_AWB
              I would set up a 301 redirect. It bascially tells the search engines: "this site moved permanently" and is the standard procedure for what you are planning to do.

              You can use a WordPress plugin like Grrrrowl suggested or manually edit your .htaccess file. It's usually just a few lines of code.
              Setting up a 301 redirect with my .htaccess file would allow me to delete all stuff related with those blogs, even the sub-domains? Or do I have to keep the sub-domains active?

              Thanks
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                • suesheboy
                  Confirmed User
                  • Nov 2002
                  • 5211
                  #5
                  .htaccess for the win.

                  I have made a htaccess redirect each sub domain by having a htaccess file in each sub domain.
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                    • Marvin_AWB
                      Registered User
                      • Dec 2014
                      • 62
                      #6
                      Originally posted by pimpware
                      Setting up a 301 redirect with my .htaccess file would allow me to delete all stuff related with those blogs, even the sub-domains? Or do I have to keep the sub-domains active?
                      No, you don't have to keep them active.

                      Just a quick example:

                      RewriteEngine On
                      RewriteBase /
                      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mydomain.com$ [NC]
                      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

                      This code would check that the address the visitor wants to access starts with mydomain.com. If not, let's say because the visitor wants to access mysubdomain.mydomain.com, there will be a 301 redirect to the main domain (mydomain.com).

                      This means no matter which sub-domains the visitor wants to accesss, there will always be a redirect to the main domain. Therefore, it doesn't matter if the sub-domains are active or not.

                      This solution is "quick and dirty" and only makes sense when you don't want to have new sub-domains in the future.
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                        • Paz
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jun 2012
                          • 457
                          #7
                          Actually the htaccess will probably put a greater strain on a busy server because every js, css, gif, jpg etc file will be processed by the htaccess file where as the plugin will probably be a lot more targeted.

                          If you do go down the htaccess route I would leave the sub-domains up and empty apart from your htaccess but you could put everything on the main site and delete the sub-domains (as per AWB's suggestion above ).

                          If you have a dedicated box or a VPS (ie you're not on shared) you have other options such as setiing up redirects in Apache, also I have an idea I did something similar via CPanel and it might be worth looking there too.

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                            • pimpware
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jan 2006
                              • 1673
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Marvin_AWB
                              No, you don't have to keep them active.

                              Just a quick example:

                              RewriteEngine On
                              RewriteBase /
                              RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mydomain.com$ [NC]
                              RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
                              This code allow me to add some kind of exception? I want to redirect all but 3 existing sub-domains.
                              icq: 284494832
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