Redirect problem - HTML Forums

A2JC4life · 09-29-2009, 03:33 PM

I just moved my blog, from blog.maindomain.com to www.maindomain.com. That went fine. I can't get the 301 redirect to work, though. If I type maindomain.com/blog/, then I get the new site, but if I type blog.maindomain.com, I get an error. This means my blog readers think my site isn't there!

I have a pretty standard Linux server setup, I think, with cPanel, Apache, PHP, etc. If I go into the subdomains section of the cPanel and redirect it from there, what kind of redirect will I get? I don't want to lose all of my search engine "juice."

charlesandrews · 09-30-2009, 08:20 AM

I'm not familiar with cPanel, however you can set up a 301 redirect easily using a .htaccess file provided Apache has mod_rewrite turned on (I haven't seen any decent hosting setups without it). There is a decent explanation of how to set it up in this mod_rewrite guide, and the second example shows redirecting a subdomain to your main domain using:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\.yoursite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yoursite.com/%1 [R=301,L]

Hope this helps.

A2JC4life · 09-30-2009, 10:16 AM

As best I can tell, I don't have the ability to manually edit the .htaccess file. It doesn't show up anywhere, and I can't find any option anywhere to show hidden files. (I created one in a subdirectory at one point, and even that one doesn't show up anywhere.)

drivle · 09-30-2009, 05:19 PM

Hello Rachel R.

I'm afraid I also am not familiar with cPanel but....

You should be looking for some sort of 'remote filter' - if you use an ftp client you will find this somewhere in the 'connect' properties.

If you find it (either in cPanel or the ftp client), you should set it to -a

...to show all files.

A2JC4life · 09-30-2009, 05:23 PM

I found the way to show hidden files (and got the problem fixed); thanks, everyone!

drivle · 09-30-2009, 05:25 PM

oh, and here's a further thought on the redirect...

If you don't have mod rewrite installed, perhaps you could try this in your .htaccess...

Redirect blog.maindomain.com http://www.maindomain.com/

Good luck

drivle · 09-30-2009, 05:27 PM

Ah, I was a little slow there

Can you share the 'fix' with us, so that others can learn?