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1. aliferste
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hiya,

   I am trying to set up a redirect from my blog which is at

   http://www.mysite.co.uk/blog

   to my new blog (I have transferred all my old content over)at

   http://www.anothersite.com

   Now, I still have content at http://www.mysite.co.uk which must stay intact so it is just the blog part that must be redirected. This means I cannot just put a simple redirect of the old domain to the new domain in place.
   I have been reading about 301 redirects, so created an .htaccess file with

   Options +FollowSymlinks
   RewriteEngine on
   rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.co.uk/blog [nc]
   rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.anothersite.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

   and put it in the directory where my wordpress installation is.....the reason I am here is because obviously I have done something wrong as it....er...doesnt work !

   Any advice would be great :)

   Alistair

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   You're overcomplicating it. I did the same when thinking about it. :)

   If these are two different servers, then it's trivial.

   RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.anothersite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

   Put this in the /blog/.htaccess file on mysite.co.uk. Done and done. Only stuff in /blog will get redirected.

3. aliferste
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Nope, I put the

   The site I am trying to redirect is

   http://www.theriverkelvin.co.uk/blog/

   to

   http://urbanflyfisher.com/

   I put the .htaccess file file in both the blog directory and the root directory but it does not seem to work.

   Any other ideas ?

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   This definitely won't be in the root directory, just in the blog directory's .htaccess file.

   RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://urbanflyfisher.com/$1 [R=301,L]

   And if doesn't work, you have a broken host. Talk to them. It *does* work, as I use something extremely similar for other purposes.

   The RewriteBase /blog/ bit is technically unnecessary, BTW. You can remove it if you want. I usually leave it so I know what's what, but still, it's not strictly important.

5. aliferste
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Great thanks for that :)

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