_{»crosslinked«}

Actually, looking at my post again I see that the RewriteRule line has lost a $ symbol, probably because it’s turned into a link. There should be a $ between / and 1 eg. .com/$1 [L,R etc.

Mick

HOWVER, I did find a method that works. I did this code instead (which I will add to the instructions):

redirect 301 / http://www.you.com/

Change http://www.you.com to your NEW site’s URL.

Rochelle

I did it!! OMG, this is a fabulous thing!

The code as you gave it to me didn’t work. I played around with it until I got it to work. What did it for me was adding a /$ at the end of my URL. Here is what my code looks like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.info/$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/1 [L,R=301]

Whew! You have no idea how much help this is!!! You are my hero of the week

I’m going to add this to the instructions.

Rochelle

Ruthie is right. I intentionally got myself into the situation of having a site on a subdomain. It was a cost saving action that I will not do again.

As you may have read, Michelle MacPhearson is my mentor right now and I am doing this at her advice. I am working to improve my best performing BANS site, which happened to be on a subdomain. One of the steps I’m taking to make it perform even better is to put it on its own URL. It is something I’ve been considering anyway so Michelle was the fire under my feet for this.

Rochelle

Sorry it didn’t work for you, it worked perfectly for me.

In my browser I keyed in http://www.mydomain.info/Category/Subcat and it redirected me to http://www.mydomain.com/Category/Subcat.

Are your categories and subcategories called the same as on the old site? If not, that would cause it to redirect to the primary URL. Mine are all the same because I’m using the same database.

Cheers

Mick

Ruthies last blog post..My EPN Earnings Month to Date

What I was curious about was how you got into the situation of http://www.siteOne.domain.com in the first place. I’m so clueless about this stuff that I just followed the instructions in the BANS manual and forum when I added new domains that I never realized I was setting up separate domains and not subs. And just by chance or luck or whatever, I’m not having to choose between massive 301 re-directing or massive teeth-pulling.

But I wondered how your domains ended up as sub-domains instead of add-ons. That was all.

Alice

Yes, these are separate domains that reside on the same hosting account. That is the only thing these URLs have in common (assuming the sites don’t relate to each other).

“So if you’re going to keep some of your sites on your original host, will you also be adding new domains using Hostgator? If so, what will you do differently so than what you did in the past?”

I think I understand this but am not totally sure. Will you please rephrase this so I can accurately answer you? Sorry for not getting it the first time.

Rochelle

I get my names from GoDaddy and then point the DNS to Hostgator. I then just add the new domains in from cpanel, and they all have their own separate urls. I add db’s and build out the site. They sure look and feel like separate domains, but I’m not savvy enough to know for sure!