Redirecting homepage alias

The plugin is not really designed to forward an entire domain to another location, because there are far more efficient (and better) ways to do that – but if you need to for some reason or another, try using this in the redirect:
/index.php
and
https://www.thecontentfactory.be
for the destination.

I am not entirely sure it will work, but you can try. If that does not work, then you will probably have to use something in the .htaccess file for the digital-media.be site (assuming you still have a WordPress site there and it is not just an alias). Search ‘.htaccess redirect one domain to another’ on Google or Bing and you should be able to find an answer on how to achieve that with htaccess.

If you are not keeping a website at the digital-media.be site, then you should be able to just set a forward up on the domain through your host/domain panel – that is by far the simplest and best way to forward a domain.

Best of luck,
Don

Thanx for your quick reply, prophecy2040!

I already tried your first suggestion (/index.php to http/www.thecontentfactory.be) but that doesn’t work.

The best solution I have so far is to put this code in the .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^digitale-media.be$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.digitale-media.be$
RewriteRule (.*)$ https://www.thecontentfactory.be/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

The result is that when you type in https://www.digitale-media.be it gets redirected indeed to https://www.thecontentfactory.be and the homepage comes out as it should. BUT: when you click on a link, you get the error:

Not Found

The requested URL /headlines/goudengids-be-lanceert-gouden-talent-wedstrijd/ was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.3.9-1~dotdeb.2 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 Server at https://www.thecontentfactory.be Port 80

Hi,

I think I found a solution for my problem.

I added this code to the .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^digitale-media.be$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.digitale-media.be$
RewriteRule (.*)$ https://www.thecontentfactory.be/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

When you head over to https://www.digitale-media.be you get redirected to https://www.thecontentfactory.be, and you don’t get an error no more when clicking on one of the articles.

Plus: it looks that Google is indexing the new site as it should. Most of the digitale-media.be/*post-url’s are being changed in thecontentfactory.be/*post-url’s.