moving your site from testsite.com => testsite.net
fr3em1nd
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hi is there a way i could transfer my site from testsite.com => testsite.net ??
i've found a solution online that might help, but haven't tested it on running to a real forum, im planning to move my forums. has anyone used this solution?
- park your new domain to your current hosting account,
- put a code on .htaccess to point it to a new domain:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$ RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] </IfModule>
im using 301 to let search engine know that im moving my content to testsite.net
is this process healthy? or if anyone can suggest, that would be great.
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phreak
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@fr3333333x: It should do the job. But give the official Google Blogs a chance by searching for wordings like moving a site, avoid duplicate content on site transfer and so on. I remember coming across an official statement some months ago.
Also the Goolge Webmaster Tools give you an option to leave some information of a site transfer to another URL.
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@fr3333333x: It should do the job. But give the official Google Blogs a chance by searching for wordings like moving a site, avoid duplicate content on site transfer and so on. I remember coming across an official statement some months ago.
Also the Goolge Webmaster Tools give you an option to leave some information of a site transfer to another URL.
@phreak yep i've done this on my site and it works like a breeze.
i'll just post it anyway to help other people encounter same things i encountered 