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301 Permanent Redirect Tutorial(.htaccess)
301-redirect is the best way to tell search engines that you have permanently changed your site’s domain name or URL of the particular page.
You will create 301 redirects if you want to:
- Change the domain name of your site
- Change format of your site(from asp/html to php or vise versa)
- Redirect from one page/file to another page/file of your site
- Redirect from one page/file from one site to another page/file on another site
How To Create .htaccess file?
Recently I have created 301 and changed the domain name of this blog from moms-andpassionate-peoplewebsites.com to internetworld.me. Dot htaccess is a small file that works with apache servers and provides most simple and easy way to create 301 redirects.
If you don’t have .htaccess file on the root of your web host then you need to create a new one:
1) Open notepad and save the file as .htaccess(dot htaccess)
2) Upload this file to the root directory of your host.
How To Change The Domain Name OF Your site:
Upload all files of you site to the server where you’ve hosted your new domain and place the below code in the .htaccess file of your old site.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.Your-new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
It is highly recommended that you should contact webmasters and correct your incoming links to the new domain.
Redirecting From One Extension To Another( ASP to PHP or vise versa)
If you want change the format of your existing site or you’ve developed a new site with new format then you will use the below code in the .htaccess file of site from where you want to create redirects.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.asp$ http://your-domain-name.com/$1.php [R=301]
This code will redirect all ASP pages to PHP
Redirecting From One Page To Another
If you want to redirect one page of your site to another page or one page from one site to another page on another site then you will use the below code.
Redirect 301 /any-page.html http://www.URL-of-the-landing-page.com
This will tell search engines that the particular page is redirected to the new URL
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Hi,
Thanks for useful information. It helps me redirect pages from one site to another.
Your explanation is very clear and short. It is not common.