URL redirection is also called URL forwarding, URL shortener, domain redirection and domain forwarding.
Why to redirect a website?
For Similar Domain Names :
A user accessing a particular domain name may type the wrong spelling of it. For example, consider www.hellboundbloggers.com and www.helboundbloggers.com. Here one ‘l’ is missing in the second domain name. Organizations often register these mis-spelled and redirect them to the correct domain name. Another example is redirecting domains for reserving TLDs (Top Level Domains). The addresses hellboundbloggers.com and hellboundbloggers.net could both redirect to a single domain, such as hellboundbloggers.org.
MUST READ : Introduction To HTACCESS For Newbies
Moving a website to a new domain :
A webpage or website can be redirected for many reasons like the website might need to change its domain name or the author of that website might move his or her pages to a new domain.
HTTP Status codes for redirect :
- 300 Multiple Choices (like offering different languages)
- 301 Moved Permanently
- 302 Found (like temporary redirect)
- 303 See Other (For results of CGI-Scripts)
- 307 Temporary Redirect
Common Methods for Redirecting A Website [URL Redirection]
Open Notepad or any other editor and copy the required code and save it. Then upload that file to your directory. I made use of the PHP redirect for redirecting My Mobile Site to Google Reader. I made mobile version of my blog through Google Reader.
ColdFusion Redirect
<.cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">
<.cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.new-url.com">
PHP Redirect
<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
?>
ASP Redirect
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.new-url.com/"
%>
ASP .NET Redirect
<script runat="server">
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-url.com");
}
</script>
JSP (Java) Redirect
<%
response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" );
response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" );
%>
.htaccess Redirect
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
CGI PERL Redirect
$q = new CGI;
print $q-&gt;redirect(&quot;http://www.new-url.com/&quot;);
Ruby on Rails Redirect
def old_action
headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
redirect_to "http://www.new-url.com/"
end
HTML Redirect
Place the following HTML code between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your HTML code.
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yoursite.com/">
Great Tutorial very informative post. Thanks for sharing.
I use JS and Meta tag to redirect my old blogspot blog to WP self hosted blog.. it works great for me.. But one thing is have to set 301 for each post so it get 301 to correct place..
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = “301 Moved Permanently”;
Response.AddHeader(“Location”,”http://www.google.com”);
}
Easy To Understand . Helped me alot. Big thanks for sharing.
Well, I don’t need it but still… thanks for sharing 😀
Well this is an essential feature if you want to move your blog to a new domain without losing the value you have earned to your current blog.
i agree with you karan!
just used htaccess method on a blog. need some tips on using .htpswd and how to block a country using htaccess.
It is important to redirect the website to e able to know if there are some problems that had occurred. In this way, the site will be fixed.
Very Easy To Understand And Thanks For The Trick 🙂
It Helped Me
Have A Nice Day…!
I believe PHP Redirect is the best and easiest idea.
Thanks. Very good tips
It’s must for all bloggers to redirect broken page…
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Simple and easy Bro. I used it with WordPress plugin.
yeah php works far better then any plug in cause plug in is a combination of php and javascript in most of the case.
Thanks Pradeep, that’s useful information you’re giving out about redirection
Cheers
Will
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thanks for posting a complete guide on re-direction, very useful. i use the re-direction plugin for wordpress, its an easy and quick way to re-direct pages on the same blog 🙂
I was looking for Php Redirect Syntax just trying to learn, and found it here, thanks for sharing the information.
looking for the similar article.. kudos…
Wow! Your blog site is very much helpful for not techy guys like me. I think I shall visit this more often. No wonder your blog became popular with a fast rising alexa rank of 136K. Congrats!
Hey Pradeep! nice and complete post regarding the topic! inspite to help! I remember there’s a plugin for wordpress direction for permanent 301 url redirection wid name Link juice keeper i guess!!
search bout it for more info ^_^ …
Pradeep Kumar
Good list, Very useful redirect code, one person asked how to redirect joomla?..same issues for me, please help me…
Good comments..i love this
Nice blog and very nice tutorial, seems i will learn lot of things here.Keep writing like this.
It’s good post. But i have problem to redirect 301 for my blog. Can you help me how to redirect 301 from www to become without www. on bloger? (example: redirect 301 http://www.mysite.blogspot.com to http://mysite.blogspot.com)
Very informative post. I have been trying to do this for a while but have been procrastinating. You make it seem easy!
In addition to your post, 301 redirects are specially useful to minimize traffic loss when moving your site to a new domain (as I did a few days ago).
Hey, great theme!! Is this custom-designed? Never seen it before!
I need to redirect for only Page not found cases, can please tell how to set it ?.
Thanks Pradeep, i will check it. the PHP Redirect, i will contact you for assistance. 🙂
Great thanks for this tutorial. I didn’t know about this.