Comments on: Moving a web site http://inluminent.com/2003/07/01/moving-a-web-site/ my comments on business, marketing, advertising, email, CAN-SPAM, selling as a profession, photography, computers and other stuff... Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Conner http://inluminent.com/2003/07/01/moving-a-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 Sean Conner Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=697#comment-1097 That's rather a roundabout way of doing things. You could have easily changed the IP address of www.marketingfix.com to the new host and that wouldn't affect the mail at all, since DNS uses different records for email (MX records) and they currently point to mail.marketingfix.com. Besides, there are easier ways of redirecting sites than using Apache's mod_rewrite; Apache also has a Redirect directive that is easier to use in instances like this (I used this several years ago when my homepages moved from one domain to another and the entire redirect took only one line). That’s rather a roundabout way of doing things. You could have easily changed the IP address of http://www.marketingfix.com to the new host and that wouldn’t affect the mail at all, since DNS uses different records for email (MX records) and they currently point to mail.marketingfix.com.

Besides, there are easier ways of redirecting sites than using Apache’s mod_rewrite; Apache also has a Redirect directive that is easier to use in instances like this (I used this several years ago when my homepages moved from one domain to another and the entire redirect took only one line).

]]> By: Olivier Travers http://inluminent.com/2003/07/01/moving-a-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 Olivier Travers Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=697#comment-1098 Our concern was to redirect traffic in a way that is compatible with search engines. MarketingFix had 2,200+ pages indexed in Google, and 301 redirects is what Google recommends (as opposed to meta redirects.) We want to be able to stop using marketingfix.com eventually, so our goal is to have search engines index up2speed.com then drop marketingfix.com. We're also concerned about showing duplicate content since that might hurt our ability to be indexed. No doubt there are many ways to do all that, this one seems to work properly so far. Regarding DNS/MX, it's my experience that once you change DNS entries for the web server, MX entries are updated too, unless you ask your host company not to. We didn't want the extra hassle (make a support request to handle MX differently from the main DNS, pray that it's done on time) while we were busy with the migration. Our concern was to redirect traffic in a way that is compatible with search engines. MarketingFix had 2,200+ pages indexed in Google, and 301 redirects is what Google recommends (as opposed to meta redirects.) We want to be able to stop using marketingfix.com eventually, so our goal is to have search engines index up2speed.com then drop marketingfix.com. We’re also concerned about showing duplicate content since that might hurt our ability to be indexed.

No doubt there are many ways to do all that, this one seems to work properly so far.

Regarding DNS/MX, it’s my experience that once you change DNS entries for the web server, MX entries are updated too, unless you ask your host company not to. We didn’t want the extra hassle (make a support request to handle MX differently from the main DNS, pray that it’s done on time) while we were busy with the migration.

]]> By: Gavin http://inluminent.com/2003/07/01/moving-a-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Gavin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=697#comment-1099 Sean is right, mod_rewrite seems like using a sledgehammer to hang a painting. You can do something like this: Redirect permanent / <a href="http://www.up2speed.com/">http://www.up2speed.com/</a> Sean is right, mod_rewrite seems like using a sledgehammer to hang a painting. You can do something like this:

Redirect permanent / http://www.up2speed.com/

]]> By: Steve Hall http://inluminent.com/2003/07/01/moving-a-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 Steve Hall Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=697#comment-1100 So John...if I moved adrants.rantworks.com to www.adrants.com, what's the best way for me to re-direct all old adrants.rantworks.com links over to adrants.com? Both sites are still live now. I'd love to have all old adrants.rantworks.com links be re-directed to corresponding adrants.com links. Do I do it with an htaccess file? Thanks, I'm dumb with this stuff. So John…if I moved adrants.rantworks.com to http://www.adrants.com, what’s the best way for me to re-direct all old adrants.rantworks.com links over to adrants.com? Both sites are still live now. I’d love to have all old adrants.rantworks.com links be re-directed to corresponding adrants.com links. Do I do it with an htaccess file? Thanks, I’m dumb with this stuff.

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