{"id":464,"date":"2021-10-24T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2021-10-24T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T20:46:26","slug":"htaccess-domain-redirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/htaccess-domain-redirect\/","title":{"rendered":"htaccess domain redirect, the proper way [2021 edition]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Normally, I write here about Conversion Rate Optimization, but recently, i had to do domain migration and all the guides on the first page of google were not helpful, so I think it&#8217;s the right thing to do and share some of the learnings from the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent three hours trying to figure out how to properly do a htaccess redirect from and old domain to a new one without loosing any pages. Some guides worked partially, some didn&#8217;t work at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/redirect-all-pages-domain-to-another-with-htaccess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> and wanted to share the code that made it all work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;\nRewriteEngine on\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/newdomain.com\/$1 &#91;R=301,L]\n&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2>htaccess redirects &#8211; things to consider<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Always backup your server before a migration<\/li><li>When you modify htaccess through a plugin like Rankmath, you will not be able to enter \/wp-admin\/ , so if you mess up, you need to restore a backup<\/li><li>It all depends on how and what you want to move. In my case I wanted to move all the posts, pages etc and use the same urls. For example, <strong>domainA.com\/post1 should go to domainB.com\/post1<\/strong>. The code I provided above works for that.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I write here about Conversion Rate Optimization, but recently, i had to do domain migration and all the guides on the first page of google were not helpful, so I think it&#8217;s the right thing to do and share some of the learnings from the process. I spent three hours trying to figure out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversionchris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}