decafjediI have a question concerning moving my blog to a new domain.
I've been blogging for a few years at a certain URL (call it http://myhost.com/~me). I recently registered a domain to point to the blog (call it http://newdomain.com/). The actual blog itself HASN'T moved. It's still hosted on the same server.
I want to make the switch over to using the new domain as the primary point of access to the website, but I'm facing a bit of a problem. When I switch over the blog URI in my Wordpress settings to newdomain.com, any outside links to the old /~me address stop working (including links to the site's index). Instead, they all turn up a Wordpress-generated 404.
I realize this is to be expected, but I'd like people who are currently linking to me or any of my older posts to still be able to access the site from the old URL. Just so they don't think my blog has crashed or shut down when they click a link.
I was wondering if there's anything I can do with my .htaccess to make this possible. Even if I couldn't forward/redirect people to a specific permalink at the new domain (although that would be ideal), I'd like to at least be able to send people who access the old /~me URL to the index at newdomain.com.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance!
