{"id":129,"date":"2015-01-01T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geohei.lu\/geoheiWP\/?p=129"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:01:40","slug":"129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geohei.lu\/geoheiWP\/129\/","title":{"rendered":".htaccess rewrite of directory to new domain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online files stored on a web server have, most of the time, many references pointing to these files.<\/p>\n

In my case, my web hoster decided that I had to take away files stored in a folder called downloads. However many links from my phpbb3 forum pointed to that directory. Needless to say, that this would require a lot of manual work adjust all these links.<\/p>\n

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An automatic solution would have been: Change URLs<\/a>. However this would only have covered the phpbb3 forum referenced URLs, not some links I send friends in order to download stuff.<\/p>\n

A much more elegant server based solution is to work with .htaccess redirection\/rewrite mechanisms.<\/p>\n

URL pointing to this directory: http:\/\/www.olddomain.com\/downloads\/<\/strong>
\nURL should be redirected to this directory: http:\/\/www.newdomain.com\/downloads\/<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following .htaccess file, located in the downloads directory, rewrites URLs:<\/p>\n

Options +FollowSymLinks\r\nRewriteEngine on\r\nRewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/www.newdomain.com\/downloads\/$1 [R=301,L]<\/pre>\n
The user doesn’t even notice that the files are downloaded from a different location than the announced URL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Online files stored on a web server have, most of the time, many references pointing to these files. In my case, my web hoster decided that I had to take away files stored in a folder called downloads. However many links from my phpbb3 forum pointed to that directory. Needless to say, that this would… <\/p>\n
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