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Latest post by toonetcreation on Monday, 25 July 2022 11:26 CDT
Hi,
I'm using AdminTools on some websites and I have to change a domain name for one of these websites.
Old domain was www.old-website.com
New domain is www.new-website.com
With AdminTools, is it possible to redirect all old URLs like www.old-website.com/contact.html to www.new-website.com/contact.html ?
Thanks
L.
Yup, it's been possible since the very first version of Admin Tools in 2010.
Requirement: both domain names (www.old-website.com and www.new-website.com) must be served by the same hosting user account. For cPanel–based hosts this means that one of these domains is the primary domain of the account and the other one is an add-on domain.
In this case you can go to the .htaccess Maker and find the “Redirect this (old) domain name to the new one” option. Enter your old domain name in there. Example:
www.old-website.com,old-website.com
Every time someone tries to visit the old domain name the request is handled by your server. However, the .htaccess file redirects it to the same URL on the new domain name.
You can try this on our own site. Between 20010 and 2020 our site was www.akeebabackup.com. Ever since September 2020 it's www.akeeba.com. Try visiting the URL of your ticket on the old domain i.e. https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/admin-tools/37513-rewrite-base-url.html. See what happens? You are magically redirected to the same URL on the new domain name. That's how we changed our domain name and nobody, literally nobody, noticed or did even as much as bat an eyelid.
We applied the same trick in 2010 when we moved from our old site (joomlapack.net) to akeebabackup.com. Again, most people never noticed the change. Those who did notice the change only did because there was a very big difference in the domain name, a new site design and we started selling subscriptions. Most people really only noticed the latter :D
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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ok I see, you're right I forgot this small option ;-)
my main idea was to do it on .htaccess file but if there is such option in admin tools that's good.
ok so in cPanel, the new domain has to be the main domain and the old domain has to be a second domain linked to /www directory also?
The .htaccess Maker does create a .htaccess so, yup, it's done in the .htaccess file :)
> ok so in cPanel, the new domain has to be the main domain and the old domain has to be a second domain linked to /www directory also?
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
ok so from DNS zone, both new and old domain A entry must be linked to the same server of course?
Correct!
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
Ok many thanks.
Have a good evening
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