{"id":1419,"date":"2017-12-11T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:53:21","slug":"how-to-redirect-base-url-addresses-to-another-base-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/2017\/12\/how-to-redirect-base-url-addresses-to-another-base-url\/","title":{"rendered":"How to redirect base url addresses to another base URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say you have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abhinav.spsdarj.org\/2017\/12\/how-to-redirect-base-url-addresses-to-another-base-url\/\">http:\/\/abhinav.spsdarj.org\/2017\/12\/how-to-redirect-base-url-addresses-to-another-base-url\/<\/a> as a url on your old website (abhinav.spsdarj.org) and now you want the link to redirect to new website. Say\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abhinav.ga\/2017\/12\/how-to-redirect-base-url-addresses-to-another-base-url\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abhinav.ga<\/a>\u00a0but the url following abhinav.ga should stay the same and when typing the old url, should magically redirect with rest of the link intact to the new website.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you do. Go to the old site&#8217;s folder in your file manager, access the .htaccess and add this:<\/p>\n<pre>RewriteEngine on\r\n\r\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abhinav\\.spsdarj\\.org$ [OR]\r\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.abhinav\\.spsdarj\\.org$\r\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ \"http\\:\\\/\\\/blog\\.abhinav\\.ga\\\/$1\" [R=301,L]<\/pre>\n<p>This supports multiple redirects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say you have\u00a0http:\/\/abhinav.spsdarj.org\/2017\/12\/how-to-redirect-base-url-addresses-to-another-base-url\/ as a url on your old website (abhinav.spsdarj.org) and now you want the link to redirect to new website. Say\u00a0abhinav.ga\u00a0but the url following abhinav.ga should stay the same and when typing the old url, should magically redirect with rest of the link intact to the new website. Here&#8217;s what you do. Go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[189],"tags":[241,242,240,170,239],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-cms","tag-mediawiki","tag-pretty-url","tag-website","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KGvB-mT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":624,"url":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/2014\/10\/guide-to-setting-up-mediawiki-on-hostgator\/","url_meta":{"origin":1419,"position":0},"title":"Guide to setting up mediawiki on Hostgator","author":"Abhinav","date":"October 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It isn't all that easy to create a good mediawiki site with URL rewrite (you know... hide the \"index.php\" part and make it all pretty looking like \"YourDomain.ext\/wiki\/\"), So here I put down a step by step method of going through this cumbersome process. 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