Daniel, Why thank you for your mercy. That is precisely why I belong to this list. Happy Friday! My colleague is saying "but I still think we should change all the references to someolddomain.com<http://farmcreditnetwork.com/> to some newdomain, especially in the code base, database etc..." I don't want to introduce more problems if a find/replace doesn't go right. Is there any valid reason for doing the quoted above or any argument against doing that. Thanks, T On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Tristan <sunnrunner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So, I need to change from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com > > > > I was thinking of doing this > > > > 1) create an alias to the site somenewdomain.com to point to current > server > > 2) run permanent 301 redirect from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com > > > > > > I was thinking this was a clean safe way to do it so we dont have to run > a > > global find replace. > > > > Concerns might be but, I don't know for sure? > > > > 1) SEO > > 2) processing / time / cost for the 301 redirect on any old > > somedomain.comrequests > > > > > > What do you guys think? > > Well, first, you get a 0.2-point deduction for not asking anything > about PHP, but since it's Friday and the folks here are about the most > creative and intelligent bunch of minds on any mailing list (call be > biased, I don't care), you still qualify for a medal. > Congratulations. > > If it were me, and this is an Apache box, I would.... > > * Add a ServerAlias somenewdomain.com directive to the > somedomain.com VirtualHost entry > * Add a mod_rewrite rule to your .htaccess file in the web > root of somedomain.com: > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} somedomain\.com$ > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://somenewdomain.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301] > > Remember to modify your rewrite stuff to be compatible with the > present SSL status of the request, and do whatever you need to do with > regard to any subdomains or whatever. > > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Network Infrastructure Manager > http://www.php.net/ >
