Redirect

[Annette]

Our old website and new website have the same domain name, however the
URLS from the old site are no longer valid. So if someone googles a
term and a link from our old site appears, the link is dead and goes
no where. I don't think I can put a redirect on our old site since the
domain name is the same. Any suggestions?

 

[Ronx]

Annette used his keyboard to write :

Our old website and new website have the same
domain name, however the URLS from the old site
are no longer valid. So if someone googles a
term and a link from our old site appears, the
link is dead and goes no where. I don't think I
can put a redirect on our old site since the
domain name is the same. Any suggestions?

If the old and new domains have the same name,
and the pages have the same name and content -
then no redirect is required.

if the page names are different then you need to
set up URL rewriting on the new site to steer the
old page names to new pages. The rewriting could
be as simple as a list of 301 redirects in an
..htaccess file, use of the rewriting features in
IIS 7, or a custom 404 error page, depending on
your server type or configuration.

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[Annette]

The old and new domains have the same name. The old site was on our
server, the new site is on a vendor's server. There is no direct
correlation between the old pages and the new pages. If you Google a
topic, the old site's page could be listed as a result. I am sure over
time, these results will go away, but was hoping there was a quick way
to handle this.

 

[Ronx]

Annette wrote on 29/10/2010 :

The old and new domains have the same name. The
old site was on our server, the new site is on
a vendor's server. There is no direct
correlation between the old pages and the new
pages. If you Google a topic, the old site's
page could be listed as a result. I am sure
over time, these results will go away, but was
hoping there was a quick way to handle this.

As I said in my previous post, you will have to
set up 301 redirects in your new site. The method
depends on the server type - Apache will use
..htaccess, IIS will need URL rewriting or a
custom 404 error page to effect the redirects.

 

[Cheng Heng]

I suggest read this article by certain C. Heng:

<http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/redirect-domain-www-subdomain.shtml>

hth