will wrestle for help with 301 redirect from old domain to new domain

[HomerJ]

i'm trying to set up .htaccess so it redirects every single individual page on the old domain to the corresponding page on the new domain, since that is what Google and SEO experts seem to be recommending from what i've read.

the trouble is every example i've come across is seemingly different, there does not seem to be one definitive example for the situation that i can find. i'm suffering informational overload :(

using my .htaccess file can any give a proper tutorial so that i can do the following

redirect:
domain1.com/page1 -> domain2.net/page1
domain1.com/page2 -> domain2.net/page2
domain1.com/page3 -> domain2.net/page3
etc.

[liberator]

Hey HomerJ,

I'm assuming apache with mod rewrite on?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteRule .* https://www.YOUR NEW DOMAIN HERE.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule .* http://www.YOUR NEW DOMAIN HERE.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

Just save as .htaccess and put in the root directory of the old site and it should redirect all traffic to the corresponding pages, including https pages

Cheers,

Jay

[HomerJ]

Hi Liberator, thanks very much for the help. one thing though, i was going by this article from webmaster central (as well as other SEO blogs i have read)

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...your-site.html

Don't do a blanket redirect directing all traffic from your old site to your new home page. This will avoid 404 errors, but it's not a good user experience. A page-to-page redirect (where each page on the old site gets redirected to the corresponding page on the new site) is more work, but gives your users a consistent and transparent experience

would your example be considered a blanket redirect? I am really looking for the pattern/template for what i would copy & paste (and then change for each page) to redirect all pages at the individual page level, if this makes sense

[HomerJ]

okay, it seems it was not the user this time, but it was the fault of the tool! (no, not me )

i had been using the right code all along and for some reason uploading the .htaccess over the old one was not rewriting that file, because i discovered that when i downloaded it after reuploading it none of the changes were there!

so what i did was went into cpanel file manager and used the editor there which edits the file directly, added the code of the form like

Redirect 301 /old/old.html http://www.you.com/new.html

then it worked as expected!

if i ever catch that damn gremlin (wringing fist in the air)

[liberator]

Glad you have it working the way you want it