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How to 301 redirect, without access to .htaccess and to a new domain
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There are few ways to do this and I would like to ask other Mozzers if they have found the best way.
We have a site .co.uk and are moving it back to .com. However we do not have any access to the site folders for .co.uk. (We have to move it anyway as our provider is withdrawing their service).
We have built our URL 301 redirect file and it is ready to go, but how to impliment it?
We can repoint .co.uk to another site, and then redirect all traffic for each URL but this is quite messy, or just forget trying to 301 each page and just rediect the whole site.
the .com has more authority already, but we ready do not want to frustrate visitors who are using a link to reach a product, only to find they hit our homepage and not the product.Your thoughts would be very welcome or other ideas
Bruce
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Hi Andy
No, it is a Webstore site. We have no access to code or to the site folders, so we cannot do anything at all with the current .co.uk site at all, but repoint it and then 301 the pages we had.
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Quick question Bruce - is the site built in Wordpress? If so, there are 301 plugins that you can use that are very simple to use. If you have access to the domain control panel, you can setup forwarding through that as well, but that is just for the domain. You would need to check with your hosts though, and make sure it's a 301 - it should be.
As already mentioned by Hector, don't redirect all pages to just the root though. This is bad practice and would certainly land you in trouble.
-Andy
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If you don't have access to .htacess, but you have access to your own code, you still can execute the redirection via PHP, with this code:
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: http://www.yournewwebsite.com/yournewdocumenturl"); ?>
I would try whatever possible to redirect individual pages and not the whole site to the root domain, not just for the visitors but also for transfering your rankings to the new URLs for each page.
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