redirecting my entire site.

[Halcrow]

hello everybody!

I want to redirect my old site (

http://www.oldsite.com)

to my new site (

http://www.newsite.com).

I've set up an .htaccess file, containing the line:

RedirectPermanent / [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.newsite.com/[/URL]

which should redirect every page on the old site to the main page of the newsite (thats what I read, anyway) - but it doesn't. Any existing page on the old site (e.g.

http://www.oldsite.com/oldpage.html),

when typed into the browser, comes up with an "The Page Cannot be Found" error - and the URL becomes

http://www.newsite.com/oldpage.html.

The host that I'm using is old and contains no support for php, SSI etc, so maybe its .htaccess support is limited as well. Could this be the problem? If not, does anyone have any ideas?

Thankyou
Calum

 

[lgarner]

Can you use a custom error document in httpd.conf?

ErrorDocument 404 "

http://www.newsite.com/error_404.html"

If I understand correctly, the new site doesn't have the same pages as the old one (which makes sense). I think this is the only way to catch those, other than a rewrite rule for each page.

 

[warpzero]

Why not use a redirectmatch with a 301 redirecting to the altnerate site. As below


RedirectMatch 301 ^/

http://www.newsite.com/