Title: 301 redirect problems – please help Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # 301 redirect problems – please help * [oggyrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oggyrocks/) * (@oggyrocks) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/301-redirect-problems-please-help/) * Have updated website to a new wordpress web site recently and want to do 301 redirects from the old site (www.skimarket.co.uk), however I get the following error message. * You can only redirect from a relative URL * From looking at previous questions, I understand that I need to ‘add the relative URL on your old domain’. However I dont understand what this means. * ie Trying to 301 redirect [http://skimarket.co.uk/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=11&products_id=419](http://skimarket.co.uk/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=11&products_id=419) to [http://www.flyingduck.co.uk/gifts-gadgets-games/uvex-sporty-glasses/](http://www.flyingduck.co.uk/gifts-gadgets-games/uvex-sporty-glasses/) * Please can you help to explain what I need to do. Thanks * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [wingtsundummy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wingtsundummy/) * (@wingtsundummy) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/301-redirect-problems-please-help/#post-6598633) * Perhaps you need to do some dns and apache configuration changes * DNS change skimarket.co.uk to resolve to the same ip as [http://www.flyingduck.co.uk](http://www.flyingduck.co.uk). * Then update Apache to take the skimarket.co.uk requests and rewrite to [http://www.flyingduck.co.uk//product_info.php?manufacturers_id=11&products_id=419](http://www.flyingduck.co.uk//product_info.php?manufacturers_id=11&products_id=419) * Then you can set up redirection for //page to /gifts-gadgets-games/uvex- sporty-glasses/ * would be determined by you, maybe “skimarket” or something * you may need to consult with a sysadmin/network admin/apache wizard for the implementation * [varrojoanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/varrojoanna/) * (@varrojoanna) * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/301-redirect-problems-please-help/#post-6598859) * Hello, I am having the same issue. Would it be possible to explain it in a simpler way? I would really appreciate that. * I am trying to redirect from my old blog post website on a domain joanna-designs. com to a new blog post on my new domain varrojoanna.com and I am getting the following error: * You can only redirect from a relative URL on this domain * Any help would be appreciated. * Thank you Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘301 redirect problems – please help’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/redirection/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=983639) * [Redirection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/reviews/) * 2 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [varrojoanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/varrojoanna/) * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/301-redirect-problems-please-help/#post-6598859) * Status: not resolved