Redirect to new Blog location?

  • Hi there.

    I have set up a clone of my Blog running on a new server and basically I to now take down the old server (bandwidth charges killing me!) I have a few Questions regarding moving it…

    1) Currently all my images are still hosted on the old blog and the blog is linking to them – I can move the old images onto the new server – but how do I change the links? do I have to do it one at a time?

    2) How do I make all traffic to my Old blog redirect to the new blog ? (is that Ht Access?)

    3) Can I make diverted traffic go to a specific page? or do they just get dumped on the front page?

    many thanks….

    Kieran

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  • Hi

    My answers assume you have a different domain on the new server than on the old server. If you are using the same domain all you need to do is point the domain nameservers to the new server IP.

    If you haven’t added additional content to the new site that is not on the old site (hopefully you haven’t) the easiest way to change all the links is to do a MySQL dump of what is on the old server, into a .sql text file. Then open that file in a text editor and do a search and replace of all references to your old site with references to your new site. That way you change them all at once.

    Then you need to reload the MySQL database on the new server from the .sql dump file.

    To redirect traffic from your old domain to the new domain (old blog to new blog): after you shut down the old hosting account I would change the nameservers on the old domain to point to the new server. Then install the old domain on your new hosting account as an addon domain, tying it to a folder. You can then set up an .htaccess file with 301 redirects that redirects traffic seeking the old domain to the new domain. Yes, you can redirect individual pages if you want. They each get their own line in the .htaccess file. Your webhost can help you with any parts of what I’m saying that you are not clear on.

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