Product url

[dbltoe]

Here are the possibilities of URLs to access your site:

http://idtagsonline.com/shop
http://www.idtagsonline.com/shop
http://idtagsonline.com
http://www.idtagsonline.com
https://idtagsonline.com/shop
https://www.idtagsonline.com/shop
https://idtagsonline.com ***
https://www.idtagsonline.com

Entering any of these would be best if it resulted in the https://idtagsonline.com (the one with ***)

Your cPanel code does not cover that. AND, I'm not sure what cPanel is going to do with redirecting a non-existent directory.

Melanie would be the expert on this, but a 301 from a previous (and now deleted) directory could be problematic with the SEs.

[idtags]

Here are the possibilities of URLs to access your site:

http://idtagsonline.com/shop
http://www.idtagsonline.com/shop
http://idtagsonline.com
http://www.idtagsonline.com
https://idtagsonline.com/shop
https://www.idtagsonline.com/shop
https://idtagsonline.com ***
https://www.idtagsonline.com

Entering any of these would be best if it resulted in the https://idtagsonline.com (the one with ***)

Your cPanel code does not cover that. AND, I'm not sure what cPanel is going to do with redirecting a non-existent directory.

Melanie would be the expert on this, but a 301 from a previous (and now deleted) directory could be problematic with the SEs.

It is an understanding that you define https://idtagsonline.com *** as a canonical URL.

I made a request for Google Indexing as they may agree with it or not:



So, until we will hear from Google no any conclusions may be drawn.

I may change all redirects as a result.

[idtags]

Google result shows as follow:



It appears Google-selected canonical is https://www.idtagsonline.com/

So, if this is correct, I will keep redirects as they are now in Cpanel, but will check after 20 hours if information propagated through the system. If it is not achieving needed result (301) then I will delete them in C-Panel and will try your codes.

Though another problem surfaced - what is Google Referring page: http://www.idtagsonline.com/store/

I requested deleting this property 3 weeks ago.

[idtags]

There are many things of great importance when moving a shop such as you did. Firstly, make sure ALL versions are redirected and that the header response is a 301 redirect. So

http://www.domain.com
https://www.domain.com
http://domain.com
https://domain.com

Here is a tool to test https://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/header-checker/

Next it is important to understand that reindexing takes time and as much as Google denies as sandboxing period, it is none the less true. The period of time it takes to see a positive SERP change depends a great deal on the health of the site. I have seen sites with issues such as widespread duplicate content take a year or better to begin to show positive results.

Lastly, and the real bummer of the day is decay. This is a sad fact that through redirect, no matter how long or how healthy the site, some rank will be lost in the changeover.

Best advice is hang tough, create new, unique content every week and share pages (not spamming) on social media. If you have the skills a few easy pages with "link bait" which is content users find useful enough to share will help.

~Melanie

Your comment is appreciated.
I took time to read more about Google Search Console and "Duplicate Content" for those sites on the same domain you show above.

But on some point of creating Google (analytics) Search Console account Google asked to identify "main" or "canonical' site.
I choose https://www.domain.com



It looks like Google acknowledged "canonical' site.

Why it is necessary to duplicate the effort with 301 Permanent redirect?

[idtags]

The one thing often forgotten when doing redirects is whether the SSL can is set to cover BOTH www and non-www or just ONE of the two.

I often use https://websiteadvantage.com.au/HtAc...ing-ToolResult to quickly create an .htaccess redirect.

IF your SSL will work for https://idtagsonline.com, you might add this to your .htaccess

# Needed before any rewritingRewriteEngine On


### Built using the .htaccess 301 Redirect Generator from Web Site Advantage
### https://websiteadvantage.com.au/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator
### Place after 'RewriteEngine On' and before any CMS specific rewrite rules


# Redirect HTTP with www to HTTPS without www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Redirect HTTP without www to HTTPS without www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Redirect HTTPS with www to HTTPS without www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]


## 301 Redirects

After doing this your test of the header will show a 301 and a 200. If you need to redirect other URLs to the non-www main store, use the generator to add them to the Old to New Page List

comment: Right now, your non-www shows as not secure.

I created this code using suggested tool: https://websiteadvantage.com.au/HtAc...ing-ToolResult:

# Needed before any rewriting
RewriteEngine On

### Built using the .htaccess 301 Redirect Generator from Web Site Advantage
### https://websiteadvantage.com.au/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator
### Place after 'RewriteEngine On' and before any CMS specific rewrite rules

# Redirect HTTP with www to HTTPS with www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Redirect HTTP without www to HTTPS with www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Redirect HTTPS without www to HTTPS with www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^idtagsonline\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.idtagsonline\.com$
RewriteRule ^store\/?(.*)$ "https\:\/\/www\.idtagsonline\.com\/$1" [R=301,L] 

It worked well for Redirect and I almost though I am done.

But this completely blocked login to Zen Cart admin.
There was no errors of any kind, but Login was not possible.
After removing the code, we could login again.

So, this makes it pozeling what to do next?

[idtags]

# Needed before any rewriting 
RewriteEngine On 

### Built using the .htaccess 301 Redirect Generator from Web Site Advantage 
### https://websiteadvantage.com.au/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator 
### Place after 'RewriteEngine On' and before any CMS specific rewrite rules 

# Redirect HTTP with www to HTTPS with www 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC] 
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] 
# Redirect HTTP without www to HTTPS with www 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] 
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] 
# Redirect HTTPS without www to HTTPS with www 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] 
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^idtagsonline\.com$ [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.idtagsonline\.com$ 
RewriteRule ^store\/?(.*)$ "https\:\/\/www\.idtagsonline\.com\/$1" [R=301,L] 

I checked code above on another domain and have the same result.

Redirect is working right, but Zen Cart login to Admin stops working.

There is some kind of conflict.

By removing this code from .htaccess login became normal.

Can anybody see what it can be?

[idtags]

We found more reports of this problem by other users in the past.

By deeping more in the forum threads we found very good and simple solution advised by mprough:

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....my-admin/page2

"So to answer the question... If you are rewriting with the redirect you can simply turn of the rewrite engine off in the first line of your Admin folder's .htaccess. ".

Code:

RewriteEngine off 

In our case we put this line in the end and it worked too.

So, we just added code RewriteEngine off into .htaccess file located in Zen Cart admin folder.

It resolved the problem

Thank you mprough