Forwarding from old shop to new?

**nonfinite** · 6 Nov 2008, 05:18 PM

I recently created new web shop, http://nonelectronics.com/catalog, based on an old shop, http://nonfinite.org/catalog.

I want anyone following a link to old products at nonfinite.org/catalog to automatically forward to the same product at nonelectronics.com/catalog.

Is this possible? If so, how do I implement this change?

If it isn't, is there at least some way I can have all pages from the old shop forward to the nonelectronics main page, nonelectronics.com?

**Stuff4Toys** · 6 Nov 2008, 05:47 PM

Two ways, the first is BEST and most efficient!

Have your DNS provider Forward all requests from domain 1 to domain 2
A temporary solution would be to create an index.html or default.html and place it in your document root with something like this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>nonelectronics.com/</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.nonelectronics.com/catalog"></HEAD>
<BODY>
If our new site does not load in 5 seconds <a href="http://www.nonelectronics.com/catalog"> Please Click Here </a>!
</BODY>
</HTML>

adapt it as you need to work for you. It's the REFRESH tag that does all the work for you and most 21st Century browsers will auto re-direct. Search engines may just forget you though.

The DNS change is still your best bet.
JOhn ><>

**Stuff4Toys** · 6 Nov 2008, 05:49 PM

I see you already did option 2, now try option 1
JOhn ><>

**skipwater** · 6 Nov 2008, 07:12 PM

Here is a suggestion

PHP Code:


<?php

// index.php on old site

// Get the requested page and redirect to new site url



   header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');

   header('Location: http://nonelectronics.com/catalog/'.basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));



?>

**nonfinite** · 6 Nov 2008, 07:15 PM

The issue with option 1 would be that non-shop portions of nonfinite.org would go to dead space at nonelectronics.com...

Is it possible to forward just http://nonfinite.org/catalog/xxx urls to it's counterpart, http://nonfinite.org/catalog/xxx, or is it all or nothing? For example, nonfinite.org/gallery takes you to nonelectronics.com/gallery = bad.

**nonfinite** · 6 Nov 2008, 07:35 PM

skipwater, your solution worked perfectly. Thank you!

**countingsheep** · 11 Nov 2008, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by skipwater

Here is a suggestion

PHP Code:


<?php
// index.php on old site
// Get the requested page and redirect to new site url
 
   header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
   header('Location: http://nonelectronics.com/catalog/'.basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
 
?>

Is this needed on every page of the old cart? Or where does this go? Sorry for my ignorance.

**yellow1912** · 12 Nov 2008, 01:07 AM

Put this portion in the index.php which should be placed where ever the old cart was placed.

**countingsheep** · 16 Nov 2008, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by yellow1912

Put this portion in the index.php which should be placed where ever the old cart was placed.

Thank you very much! It worked great!

**gjh42** · 13 Dec 2008, 07:54 AM

I am moving our site from /shop/ to the root, and trying this 301 redirect method. I renamed the old ZC index.php to index.php.zc137.bak, and put this file in as index.php:

PHP Code:


<?php

// index.php on old site
// Get the requested page and redirect to new site url
// from skipwater - modified by gjh42 20081212

   header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
   header('Location: http://www.futurelics.com/'.basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));

?>

Firefox is giving an error that "the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete".

The old address is http://www.futurelics.com/shop/
and the new is http://www.futurelics.com/

Any ideas why this is not working?

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