Hey guys/gals,

It's been a pretty good minute since I've had to come to JSP for help, but you've all been great in the past and I've got another situation I need help digesting.

I recently took over a web development project for a local music camp in a neighboring town.
All the development is going smooth, but they recently changed names and they want to use a new url.
Here's the problem..

My client has two urls for their site.
The original url is site123.com
The new url is siteABC.com

They both take you the same page, with the same content, same backend, etc.
The client it would like for siteABC.com to be the only URL that is ever displayed, regardless of how the site is reached.
The problem is that if i setup a typical 301 redirect the site gets stuck in an infinite loading loop.
I believe this is because siteabc.com is pointed straight at "site123.com", however I am still trying to figure out exactly what it is they have going on.

Any ideas? btw, they are using wordpress, apache, linux

Thanks all,
Grievance

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/javascript/javascript_page_redirect.htm

this explains how.

you have to park the domain, not redirect

are you suggesting I park their old domain? what happens then when an old customer tries to access their site using the old url? Would they not land on a parking page?

Its obvious to me that I need to doing some flipflopping.. just not sure the best way to go about it.

this

you cant really accomplish this with code, you need to go to your host and park that domain.

it's the same as if you go to d2jsp.com

I would achieve this with a php command like header.

<?php
header("location:site123.html")
?>

this would send you from siteabc to site123 completely redirecting you to use that site.

This post was edited by PumperNickle on Feb 1 2014 11:26pm

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You can tackle this in a couple ways, doing this via code is terrible for seo reasons and you get duplicate results in searches, unless you specify 301 headers
You had the correct answer, and that is a 301 redirect

chances are your redirect was setup wrong if it was stuck in a loop, try adding the following to your .htaccess file in the root dir of the old site

Redirect 301 / http://siteABC.com/

This post was edited by 0n35 on Feb 2 2014 11:34am