Hi all,

This is my first post here. I checked out a few webmaster-orientated forums before settling on this one.

Here is an overview of the task I am currently engaged in, as well as the current difficulties I am having. I hope that the community here can offer some practical assistance and maybe even moral support to prevent me from banging my head off of the wall.

Task

- Moving domains with my 3-year old, self-hosted Wordpress blog.

So far this has gone rather smoothly. I copied the database and site across to the new domain, and the new site is in complete working order. Great.

Now all I need to do is redirect the old site to the new. Not as easy as it should be.

I set up a couple of test pages in order to redirect them to the site, just to see if it works. eg. example.com/test/ -> newexample.com/

For some reason or other these are having no impact whatsoever, and are not redirecting the page as they should be! I am fairly certain the redirects are formatted correctly and should work. But they don't!

I already have some fully functioning 301 redirects in my htaccess file which have been active and working for over a year, so I don't know why the new ones aren't working.


Thanks in advance for any input or advice,

and what redirect are you using, and are the new and old hostnames on the same server?

Hi,

Yes the two sites are both on the same server.

I tried two different tests using 301 redirects in my .htaccess file.

One like this...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$
RewriteRule ^2008/04/behind-the-monacle/$ "http://newdomain.com/" [R=301,L]

And one like...

redirect 301 "2008/04/behind-the-monacle/"  http://newdomain.com

Why just 2008/04, why not all the pages?

Because this was just a test, to make sure redirects were working ok, before I moved the whole site.

Thanks,

Interesting... I've just tried out a few 'redirect checkers' such as

http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

and they are reporting that no redirect is exists for the url, even though it is 100% present in my .htaccess file.

I'm going to speak to my web host, although this is most strange. I've ran my preexisting redirects through the checker and they all show up as they should.