Unique twist on redirect old domain / path changes

  • m0nsters

    (@m0nsters)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Apologies if this has been answered before but I’m not finding this actual use case. We moved over our legacy site to a new domain on WP. Currently there are domain/paths that are pointed to our old domain from 3rd parties which we can’t easily change. For now the legacy site is up and we are doing rules there to redirect many pages from http://www.olddomain.com/link/link/etc to http://www.newdomain/differentlink.

    What would be the easiest means to do this in which we redirect the entire legacy domain to the new site via DNS and then have the ability to accept the http://www.olddomain.com/link/link/etc and rewrite those to the http://www.newdomain/different link all on the new WP side so we can turn off the old site?

    I’ve seen the redirect plugins but it seems they are for the existing domain and or redirect externally.

    Thank you so much.

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  • Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Currently there are domain/paths that are pointed to our old domain from 3rd parties which we can’t easily change…

    What are these 3rd party resources? Scripts for tracking, forms, etc?

    You can do a blanket redirect from one domain to the other if you domain forward at the domain registrar. Or host the old domain and use a blanket redirect in .htaccess. And you can also redirect individual URLs with either method if you use a redirection plugin.

    But, many 3rd party resources have domain origin restrictions to prevent hijacking, and you will simply see errors for those resources on your new domain. You really need to change all your 3rd party resources at the source to point to your new domain.

    Thread Starter m0nsters

    (@m0nsters)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    It’s embedded in 3rd party documents for various products that we can’t easily manipulate. Ideally we’d like to redirect the entire domain at the DNS level and then do the redirects at the new site from http://www.olddomain/sub to http://www.newdomain/newsub/etc So the incoming domain AND the actual path is different is that possible?

    Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    I doubt those 3rd party will record/track correctly.

    So the incoming domain AND the actual path is different is that possible?

    You can redirect the main domain via the registrar or via .htaccess. Actual URL paths can only be redirected in .htaccess.

    Google htaccess 301 redirect. You may also want/need RegEx expressions to handle multiple redirects with one rule.

    Or use WordPress › Redirection « WordPress Plugins for actual path (not domain) redirects.

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