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1. larrinski
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have been trying to fix a boat load of old URLs that point to my old domains, and route them to my new one. I have 2 domains that I own, that I want to forward to my new domain. The forwarding of the domains works with my hosting company, but all my indexed content doesn't forward. I am trying to get Redirection to fix it for me.

   Here is an example...
   http://atheist.nu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/intelligent-design-poster.jpg.
   I want it to automatically replace "http://atheist.nu/blog" to be "http://end-of-silence.org/blog". Unfortunately even though the install and all my content has not moved, the image will not load, and will instead go to my 404 page. Can redirection fix all my permalinks to route to my new domain? I want all content from "atheist.nu/blog/*" and "larrinski.org/blog/*" to open as "end-of-silence.org/blog/*"

   I also changed my permalink structure from /blog/%postname% to /%postname% so all the indexed permalinks that used to be http://www.end-of-silence.org/blog/blog/*, I would like to go to http://www.end-of-silence.org/blog/*. Any suggestions on how to fix it?

   Cheers!

2. larrinski
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Couldn't get the edit to work, so I am reposting a part that could have been clearer...

   Here is an example...
   http://atheist.nu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/intelligent-design-poster.jpg.

   If you change it to
   http://www.end-of-silence.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/intelligent-design-poster.jpg

   it loads just fine...

   So, how do I get all my content to make that change?

3. larrinski
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   A lame bump...

4. Peter
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Have you looked into editing your .htaccess file on atheist.nu?

   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^atheist\.nu$ [NC]
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.end-of-silence.org/$1 [R=301,L]

5. larrinski
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Is this file at my hosting company? I can't locate it in my wordpress install.

6. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   .htaccess is never part of WP - it is created/uploaded only when you want to use the so-called nice permalinks.
   If there isn't one at the old domain (if it is still hosted on a server) - just create one and put into it the lines given above.

7. larrinski
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Found it! Forgot to show hidden files in cyberduck!

   Sorry to be daft, but this process is new for me. I added the value to the file, but no go so far. I will give it a few hours to see if it takes a while to have effect.
   Thanks for the guidance. I will see if this helps, and follow up.

8. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Actually, those two lines should be in a .htaccess file in the root folder of the atheist.nu domain!

9. larrinski
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Do I add atheist.nu to my hosting account? I guess with deluxe hosting I can add a few domains... I will try adding it and see if there is a file manager option for it.

10. larrinski
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Both domains are hosted in the same account. There is no other root directory, or so I think...

    OK, so I added atheist.nu as another hosting domain, and added a new .htaccess file with the above info...

11. larrinski
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Now everything is slow as molasses!

    I took out the 2 lines from my end-of-silence.org .htaccess file, and removed atheist.nu hosting just in case I screwed that up.

    My entries seem to hang up just after the post loads...

    Any suggestions? Cheers!

12. moshu
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I am getting lost as to what are you doing... those two lines were NEVER supposed to be in the htaccess file of the new domain: they were supposed to be in the old domain, so when a request for the old address(es) comes in - e.g. if I bookmarked the old address - the request would be forwarded permanently (301) to the new location.

    That's exactly what pkthree told you yesterday:
    editing your .htaccess file on atheist.nu

13. larrinski
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thank you Moshu.

    I am getting lost as to what I am doing too!!! Here is what I did...

    I originally added those 2 lines to my root directory at end-of-silence.org. After you pointed out that this was wrong, I logged into my godaddy account, went to my hosting account and added atheist.nu. Previously I only had the domain forward to http://www.end-of-silence.org and it wasn't in my hosting account list. I then added a .htaccess file to the file manager with those 2 lines.

    It probably doesn't help that I am having to navigate through godaddy. Their site is horrible!

    I had hoped that this would be an easy forwarding problem, but it appears much more complex. Seeing that Google just announced we can submit for re-indexing, I may just live with all the 404s for now.

    It is funny that all my blog permalinks seem to properly forward, but images and tags do not.

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