Redirecting a Wordpress Site
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



Last week I decided to completely move my blog over to bitnode.net. I created a
post in the old location with the details of the move and watched my viewer
metrics slowly shift sites. However, Google is still indexing my old site and
it is still showing up at the top of the results while this new blog is just
hanging around on page four. This makes for a very sad day for all (or possibly
just me).

With that, I decided to do a redirect. There are several options for a
redirect, but what I wanted was a bit different than the typical domain
forward. I wanted to be able to keep my post locations, but have the domain
name change. Since the paths to my posts are the same format between the old
location and the new location, doing a simple append to the redirect url would
suffice. Here's how I did it.

At the top of my header.php file (yep, WordPress), I added the following
lines...

----
<?php header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header('Location: http://bitnode.net/'.$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); exit();
?>
----

Since this is in my header file, it loads on every page. What's nice about this
solution is that it takes the path to the current page and appends it to
bitnode.net redirect location, so if your source and destination URI formats
are the same, it will be a seamless redirect.

This solution works well, but does anyone have any other solutions that would
also work? It never hurts to know all the different ways after all.

*Edit:* As it turns out, you can do the same thing from WordPress to Drupal.
They evidently support the same URI formats.


Category:WordPress
Category:PHP


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