We have moved our site to a new server about a week ago. (we kept the same domain name)
We set the TLL to a very short period of time before we moved.
On the old server i put up a page that we had moved server.
NOW, i am still getting reports that people are seeing the old server message over a week later. What have i done wrong? how can i tell the old site to redirect to the new site?
As it stands we have now redirected to a sub domain. which does not really work because the whole site runs under HTTPS and the redirect subdomain is not under HTTPS.
EDIT - further question: am i messing things up by keeping the old server alive with a working web page? If the site at the old ip was dead would that force a new DNS look up?
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For many years I had a successful website at https://www.lunarium.co.uk built on top of Google App Engine, Java version. Some time ago, GAE deprecated the technology they initially recommended for storage, so I decided to re-create the site on a new, less cumbersome platform. Eventually, I re-created it with Django, hosted on Pythonanywhere.com at the domain name https://www.lunarium.co.
When the new version was ready, I've forwarded the domain name lunarium.co.uk (hosted with GoDaddy) to lunarium.co (301, no masking). I also changed the CNAME www on lunarium.co.uk to point to the naked domain name, lunarium.co.uk. This was done in the beginning of April, but the stats keep showing that many people are still going to the old version of the website. On some days, many more people visit the old website than the new one. This is one part of the problem — why is that happening? (Right now I've also added forwarding from www.lunarium.co.uk to www.lunarium.co but was unable to delete the www CNAME).
Also, I had some pages on the old website that were very popular. For example, this one: https://www.lunarium.co.uk/moonsign/calculator.jsp. I made sure that if someone will come looking for this page on the new website (like https://www.lunarium.co/moonsign/calculator.jsp) they would be redirected to the appropriate new page. However, when trying to navigate to that popular old page, I'm getting a strange error message: Not Found 404.0, and I'm not sure where this message is coming from.
Previously, when navigating to the home page of the old website, I used to be correctly redirected to the home page of the new website. (I just tried to do that, and it didn't work, but maybe that is a temporary glitch). However, specific pages within the website are never properly redirected. Is there a way to make sure that they are redirected?
I am using Bluehost to host my website.
Website needs to be refreshed and start anew each year, but I want to keep the current website in subdirectory.
How can I point current website (example.com) to something like example.com/2020-2021 and start creating new website in example.com? while keeping the same layouts
If you can edit the website's html directly, try this. It should redirect the page automatically.
I have a client who is merging two sites into one. For the time being we are just installing a WP plugin to the site to manage the handful of 301 redirects they'd like handled, rather than writing to .htaccess manually.
But in a month or two they'd like to remove the site completely. Is there a way we can redirect traffic to the new combined site once they get rid of their hosting and we no longer have access to their .htaccess?
I have seen some brief mentions of setting the DNS to something but I don't totally understand and I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do. I have not asked the client if they are holding onto the domain name. In order to point the DNS to the new site, we'd need them to still own the old domain, correct? What would I assign the values to be?
You have to own the domain to do anything with it including updating DNS name. It wouldn't be smart to let it go.
If they don't have hosting on it anymore, then they will need to do domain forwarding with DNS. It can be done with 301 or 302 status codes. This link will show you how to do it on Godaddy. If you don't have Godaddy as your registrar, just look for the instructions for your domain registar.
https://www.godaddy.com/help/manually-forwarding-or-masking-your-domain-name-422
I am completely confused the last few days with this and I still haven't found an outcome that's worked.
Basically I have a domain name without hosting at letshost.ie which is dublinplasterer.ie
I also Have one domain & hosting with godaddy for domain- shanafagan.com which is my own site for web/graphic design service.
I created a subdomain= dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com and uploaded the site files.
Basically I want for example when someone types in dublinplasterer.ie in the address bar if goes to dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com but doesn't show dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com url, stays as dublinplasterer.ie
Im not even sure if this can be done at this stage. head is melted
shanafagan.com and the subdomain dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com have the same ip so how will that work if changing dns?
Any help would be greatly appreciated , am so stuck at this stage.
If you wanted to do it this way you would need a web server for domain2.com
Search for ProxyPass.
The way you should do this is add a second domain on your web hosting (cpanel for example) and point the other domain to this web server.
If you are struggling I recommend using a solution like cPanel that is widely used and simplifies much of the process. It is common enough you can google most issues.
So normally you would have started by making an add-on domain (instead of a subdomain) which would also create it's own subdomain anyway. To do that, you go to your cPanel in GoDaddy and find add-on domain, then make it "dublinplasterer.ie" (Don't add www. to it. Even though this name is hosted elsewhere, we will later go to your DNS files at that hosting and point it to your GoDaddy's name servers and this add-on helps it direct to the right root folder) then choose your local root folder for that site (I think you can actually make this the same as your other subfolder already hosting your files and then it will just pull the same site) or you can pick a different subfolder and then make the add-on domain. This tells any request to this name server that if it is a request for "dublinplasterer.ie" it needs to send it to the subfolder you specified.
If you don't make the subfolder the same as the one you already made, you can either load the same content into your new subfolder or create a CNAME record telling this add-on to point to your subfolder instead but that is more complex so go with the other route.
Lastly, you need to go to your original hosting at letshost.ie and under your domain name find the DNS records tab. Change the name servers to match your GoDaddy ones and now (may take a day or two to show as DNS changes often take days and can't be seen immediately but you can try using a different device/computer/mobile that hasn't loaded it previously to see if it will refresh the correct dns) it should work. Even though it points to your main site name servers, the add-on domain you made receives it and directs it to the subfolder you specified on the add-on domain.
Hope that helps, let me know if it works for you.
I've got a bit of a problem with Google's Change of Address function on the Google Webmaster tools. I hope that I got the right part of the Stack Exchange for this.
Basically, for six years I've been using a blogging platform blogsome.com (which hosts domains like http://site-address.blogsome.com), which is basically a hosted wordpress server. I've had no complaints about it, until they recently announced that they would close down on a very, very short notice.
With this, I found it a good opportunity to set up a domain of my own (let's call it http://site-adress.net for now). Setting up the domain and website went well, but when I went to Google Webmaster Tools to tell it about the change of address, this proved to be surprisingly difficult. In particular, when I tried the "Change of Address"-option on the dashboard, I get the message that this option is not available for subdomains.
What method would there be to correctly tell google that my site has changed? I cannot use 301-redirects, because 1) I do not have access to do that on blogsome, and 2) blogsome will be shutting down really soon (read: within a week; the news was on a very short notice, and I spent most of that time actually setting up the website). I've also read somewhere that you should keep your old site alive for 180 days, and again that is no option for me either.
The best option is to use a .htaccess file (plain text file)
And put this inside it and upload it to your site.
Redirect 301 / http://www.yournewdomain.com/
If you cant do that you might be able to upload a new index.php with the following inside it.
<?php
header( "Status: 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.yournewdomain.com/" );
exit(0)
?>
If you cant do that either, then say what you can actually do on the server?
Do you have any actually access to files? Or can you edit the templates?
You should be able to move it in gwt i'm not 100% sure, I never done it with a subdomain or a blog-hosted site. So I might be wrong here.
Add your new domain with the blog to your gwt account and get it verified.
Then in GWT goto your bloghosted site then to Site Configuration > Change of address
And then select your new domain under the "Tell us the URL of your new domain" part and hit Submit