How to Redirect a website or web page

Below are some of the ways on how to redirect a website. They are:

How to Redirect a website using 301 Redirect code

301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method to redirect a website or webpage. You only need a simple code made a permanent redirect url on the fly. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it’s the safest option. The code “301” is interpreted as “moved permanently”.

Below are a Couple of methods to implement URL Redirection via code and htaccess redirect


How to Redirect a website using ColdFusion Redirect

Example

<.cfheader statuscode=”301″ statustext=”Moved permanently”>
<.cfheader name=”Location” value=”http://www.new-url.com”>


How to Redirect a website using PHP Redirect

Example

<?
Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
Header( “Location: http://www.new-url.com” );
?>


How to Redirect a website using ASP Redirect

Example

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status=”301 Moved Permanently”
Response.AddHeader “Location”,”http://www.new-url.com/”
%>


How to Redirect a website using ASP .NET Redirect

Example

<script runat=”server”>
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = “301 Moved Permanently”;
Response.AddHeader(“Location”,”http://www.new-url.com”);
}
</script>


How to Redirect a website using JSP (Java) Redirect

Example

<%
response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( “Location”, “http://www.new-url.com/” );
response.setHeader( “Connection”, “close” );
%>


How to Redirect a website using CGI PERL Redirect

Example

$q = new CGI;
print $q->redirect(“http://www.new-url.com/”);


How to Redirect a website using Ruby on Rails Redirect

Example

def old_action
headers[“Status”] = “301 Moved Permanently”
redirect_to “http://www.new-url.com/”
end


How to Redirect Old domain to New domain using htaccess redirect

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Example

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your real domain name.

In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.


How to Redirect a website URL from www to non www using htaccess redirect

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to www.domain.com will get redirected to domain.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Example

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please REPLACE domain.com and www.domain.com with your real domain name.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.