Mandy, how would the directive know whether to look on microsite or mainsite to find the requested page without making inefficient requests? Think carefully about what you're trying to do here: why have two sites at all if you only want users to access one of them? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Mandy Singh <mandys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like some help in understanding how redirects work. > > I have a main site www.mainsite.com and a microsite www.microsite.com. > > All my rankings should be determined by mainsite.com. > > However, we didn't think about it earlier and now microsite.com and > mainsite.com have divided traffic and hence rankings are lower. > > We want to consolidate the two. > > I know about 301 redirects and ideally I could have done - > > RewriteEngine ON > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mainsite.com/$1 [R=301,L] > > So, www.microsite.com/about/index.php would go to > www.mainsite.com/about/index.php and my rankings would be accounted for as > its a permanent redirect. > > However, this would mean I need to move all my pages "physically" from > microsite to mainsite. > > Is there another alternative wherein I keep all my pages on microsite (still > have same directory structure) but call them using mainsite.com domain? > > Am I making sense? > > Let me know. > > Thanks. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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