Moving to a subdomain, how to keep links from 404?

  • Hey guys,

    I am thinking of revamping my entire site https://www.cgcookie.com and moving it to a sub domain cg.cgcookie.com to develop it,etc.. My biggest concern is keeping external links current. My site receives a bit of traffic from external links into our articles and I would like to make sure these just don’t hit 404’s after the move has taken place.

    I have read a bit on permalinks, and am currently using the year/month/day/article-name

    Any suggestions or are there any articles online to read through while sipping some coffee?

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  • Thread Starter wesburke

    (@wesburke)

    Hey guys – I was reading a bit more on this, but am I correct to think that I can set up a .htaccess file to redirect all traffic to the subdomain and keep/adjust the path?

    Cheers,

    W

    Thread Starter wesburke

    (@wesburke)

    Okay I have dug up this code to use and it (from what I read). Will do exactly what I would need. Only issue is that I am getting an “Internal Server Error 500” when I implement it.

    Do you see anything off with it? 

    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cgcookie.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.cgcookie.com$1 [L,R=301]

RedirectMatch 301 ^/articles/(.*)$ https://cg.cgcookie.com/$1

    Would love to hear if this worked as I’m trying to achieve the same.

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