Posts Tagged ‘htaccess’

I have just moved my blog to a new sub-domain but I did not want to loose my linkbacks. I had requested a redirect from my host, but did not know how long that would take. I discovered with Apache servers running on some kind of *nix server, given the right permissions, I could do this myself by editing the .htaccess file. The change was quite simple. I wanted to redirect http://fishbowl42.com/blog/ to http://oojah.fishbowl42.com/blog1.php/ I opened the .htaccess in my /blog directory and made the following alterations:

# BEGIN
redirect 301 /blog/ http://oojah.fishbowl42.com/blog1.php/
# END

Now I tested it out, by clicking on a linkback from www.tuxmachines.org and sure enough that link was directed to the corresponding URL on the new sub-domain.