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Mrtwister · 03-01-2005, 08:08 PM

Hi.. I have been trying to get the guy who hosts my domain to have it forward to a different address. He can do this however he does not know how to make it forward the paths as well. So I am potentially losing a lot of 404 traffic and I cannot setup sub dirs or anything because the forwarding wont work correctly. How does one do this for Apache? Is there a certain rewrite rule needed or something in the .htaccess file?

Thanks!

SplitInfinity · 03-01-2005, 08:15 PM

ReDirect / http://www.newsite.com/

:-)

Should work just fine.
If you want to omit the paths after the domain and make all the traffic go to the main site on the new domain, do it like this:

ReDirect / http://www.newdomain.com/?

:-)
Anything after the ? will be disposed of because they will be treated as query strings. :-)

SplitInfinity should be hosting you if your host cant do that. :-)

JFPdude · 03-01-2005, 08:17 PM

I may know the answer to that. :food-smil

Btw who's the host?

ICQ 44-33-144

Mrtwister · 03-01-2005, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SplitInfinity

ReDirect / http://www.newsite.com/

:-)

Should work just fine.
If you want to omit the paths after the domain and make all the traffic go to the main site on the new domain, do it like this:

ReDirect / http://www.newdomain.com/?

:-)
Anything after the ? will be disposed of because they will be treated as query strings. :-)

SplitInfinity should be hosting you if your host cant do that. :-)

Is that the htaccess file? They arent exactly hosting me.. just forwarding some of my domains. They are having their server do it I think somehow.. it works through an invis frame so it hides the original ip. Works fine cept it wont forward the paths. Frustrating the shit out of me.

webair · 03-01-2005, 08:21 PM

Mrtwister get with me i'll give you a tech to help you out with your issue...there are a few ways to address this

SplitInfinity · 03-01-2005, 08:26 PM

You can plop that into the httpd.conf file in your OLD domains Virtual host definitions.... Here is an example:

<VirtualHost 216.188.28.15>
ReDirect / http://www.geekypeople.com/?

# The below is no longer needed if were redirecting entirely the domain on this ip
#DocumentRoot /home/admin/bettorsearch.com/public_html

ServerAlias webhelium.com *.webhelium.com
ServerName www.webhelium.com
</VirtualHost>

SplitInfinity · 03-01-2005, 08:27 PM

Note, you can also specify the TYPE of redirect:

Redirect permanent /foo http://www.example.com/bar

toddler · 03-01-2005, 08:32 PM

slap a 301 in there, make it permanent.

Mrtwister · 03-01-2005, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SplitInfinity

You can plop that into the httpd.conf file in your OLD domains Virtual host definitions.... Here is an example:

<VirtualHost 216.188.28.15>
ReDirect / http://www.geekypeople.com/?

# The below is no longer needed if were redirecting entirely the domain on this ip
#DocumentRoot /home/admin/bettorsearch.com/public_html

ServerAlias webhelium.com *.webhelium.com
ServerName www.webhelium.com
</VirtualHost>

Will this work with an invisible frame to mask the url? and /? is if I dont want the directories displayed? I want the directories and all other files to show up as is on my server. So www.blah.com/hello will go to diffaddress.com/hello but still show www.blah.com in the address bar.

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated!

SplitInfinity · 03-01-2005, 08:37 PM

Yeah it should work just fine. You just dont use the ? for that and it will work just like you want it to. You dont even need a hidden frame.

03-01-2005, 08:08 PM	#1
Mrtwister Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 23	a question for server gurus Hi.. I have been trying to get the guy who hosts my domain to have it forward to a different address. He can do this however he does not know how to make it forward the paths as well. So I am potentially losing a lot of 404 traffic and I cannot setup sub dirs or anything because the forwarding wont work correctly. How does one do this for Apache? Is there a certain rewrite rule needed or something in the .htaccess file? Thanks!

03-01-2005, 08:21 PM	#5
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03-01-2005, 08:32 PM	#8
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03-01-2005, 08:15 PM	#2
SplitInfinity Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 3,047	ReDirect / http://www.newsite.com/ :-) Should work just fine. If you want to omit the paths after the domain and make all the traffic go to the main site on the new domain, do it like this: ReDirect / http://www.newdomain.com/? :-) Anything after the ? will be disposed of because they will be treated as query strings. :-) SplitInfinity should be hosting you if your host cant do that. :-)

03-01-2005, 08:17 PM	#3
JFPdude Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Mountains of Western North Carolina. Posts: 4,027	I may know the answer to that. :food-smil Btw who's the host? ICQ 44-33-144

03-01-2005, 08:26 PM	#6
SplitInfinity Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 3,047	You can plop that into the httpd.conf file in your OLD domains Virtual host definitions.... Here is an example: <VirtualHost 216.188.28.15> ReDirect / http://www.geekypeople.com/? # The below is no longer needed if were redirecting entirely the domain on this ip #DocumentRoot /home/admin/bettorsearch.com/public_html ServerAlias webhelium.com *.webhelium.com ServerName www.webhelium.com </VirtualHost>

03-01-2005, 08:27 PM	#7
SplitInfinity Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 3,047	Note, you can also specify the TYPE of redirect: Redirect permanent /foo http://www.example.com/bar

03-01-2005, 08:37 PM	#10
SplitInfinity Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 3,047	Yeah it should work just fine. You just dont use the ? for that and it will work just like you want it to. You dont even need a hidden frame.