Hi,

I have 2 website, ump,com, and surgicaltechnology,com.
Until recently they had identical content on them.

I made some development on surgicaltechnology.

I am planing to redirect the users from ump to surgicaltechnology, and would like to know, what happends if someone requests a page from the "old" ump, what does not exist on the new surgicaltechnology.

Do they get a "Page not found" message, or end up on the index.html on surgicaltechnology...

Thanks in advance

Attila

It depends on how you do the redirect if you do:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.surgicaltechnology.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Then all pages should redirect to equivalent pages on the new domain so if they are not there then you get a 404.

If you do:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.surgicaltechnology.com/ [R=301,L]

Then all the pages on the old domain should take the visitor to the home of the new domain.

You can also redirect folders/files with something like:

RewriteRule ^olddir/(.*)$ http://www.surgicaltechnology.com/newdir/$1 [R=301,L]

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Thanks, that seems to answer to my question.

And it seems clear.

If I may, I would like to get the matter one step further:

The redesign of the new site also involved renaming the html filenames from (example) surginst.html to SurgicalInstruments.html and similar renames

Is there a syntax (on my level) where I could redirect the pages to pages too ?
I have 10-15 pages what I think my visitors have as bookmark, so I just would like them to notice the "upgrade" instead of ending up just on the home page...
I would like to avoid the redirection on .html level (ie. the page comes up and in a second the page where it is redirected to)

Thanks in advance !

Attila

You should be able to use:

redirect 301 /oldpath/oldfile.html http://www.surgicaltechnology.com/newpath/newfile.htm

Adding 1 line per file that needs redirecting.

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Hi Speed !

Thanks a lot !

So far that should be enough for me.
I hope I will be able to do a hickup-free redirection...

Thanks again, you just give me the exact help I needed.

Regards

Attila

One thing to note is that it will probably be easiest to manage this if you do two redirections. The first is on the original domain name redirecting traffic to the equivalent URL on the new domain, as speed suggested:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.surgicaltechnology.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Then on the new domain, do the individual redirects for the common changed URLs. This way, if some URLs are missed or changes are needed, you won't have to go searching through the config files for both domains to track down a redirect. Users and search engines would be redirected twice, but they are generally tolerant of three to four redirects before an error is assumed.

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Hi guys,

Thanks for all the god and well explained advise.
I going to try them...

Thanks again