I want to restrict access to a folder on my server so that visitors may only access the contents (a web application) via links in the same domain. Can I do this using .htaccess? To be clear, I simply want to prevent direct access to the contents so that visitors are routed through other pages on my website in order to get there.
Sounds to me you want URL rewriting. Rewrite all URLs to point to a single point of entry (i.e. the index page), and have the route set as a GET variable (i.e. index.php?r=css/file.css).
This way, you have complete control over what goes where, and you can include or redirect your users accordingly.
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I have copied a Joomla site from one domain to a new domain.
I want to rewrite the domain name only to keep the directory structure.
And I want to keep the original URL in the address bar to preserve SEO ranking.
Joomla is using relative url's, so the real domain name of the new server will not as such be invoked by Joomla.
How to do this in .htaccess on Apache?
And I want to keep the original URL in the address bar to preserve SEO ranking.
That won't help you really, just add proper 301 redirects and make sure you catch as much of the indexed url's with your redirects component within joomla to prevent any dead links (google hates those and will penalize your domain for it). Also add sitemap, upload it to your google webmaster tools and ask google to index it.
We want to migrate from CMS to own system.
Page addresses in CMS and own system are different. We want to use 301 redirect to all website's pages.
The output HTML of CMS and own system have some few differences:
OpenGraph semantic
No javascript generated by CMS
Should we be afraid the failing of search traffic?
If done properly, the 301 is the way to go when the url is changed permanently. The most common mistake our clients do is to change the URL of a page and never redirects the old page's url to the updated location. This causes 404 pages.
My advice is to structure everything. Start with generating a file containing all current URL of the website. Then use an excel file or google sheet and pages those in. Right next to that column add another one - this is the column where you decide what you should do with each URL (either keep, remove/kill, combine it another page or change the URL).
Since you want to change the CMS, I am not sure how your have structured your pages right now and how they are indexed, BUT whatever you do, make sure that if anything in the URL has been changed, use a 301 to permanently redirect the old URL to the new location. Otherwise if that page receives some traffic, you will lose the traffic as the visitors would land on 404 (page not found) page.
Go through the URL list, one by one and determine what will happen with that page/url.
For example I wish to redirect list.mydomain.com to http://my.emailingapp.com/lists/
but keeping the name displayed in URL as "list.mydomain.com".
Note that all parameters are to be passed over. e.g. list.mydomain.com/?stuff=a should be the same with http://my.emailingapp.com/lists/?stuff=a
Another note: these domains are on different server.
There are many other similar posts, but all of them does not work exactly as I wanted to.
Adding a CNAME record for list.mydomain.com to my.emailingapp.com using which you can achieve the following.
URL remains list.mydomain.com
The arguments get displayed in URL as list.mydomain.com/?stuff=a
Your requirement of having /lists/ should be implementable by URL rewrite rules.
I am renewing my web page and changing the site structure. It was in Asp and now it will be in Asp.Net
So page URLs will be modified. And some pages will be removed, some will be added. But mostly, the content and page names are same, only URLs will change.
The site has SEO work in it and we want to loose it minimum.Site is registered in Analytics and Webmaster Tools.
Google searches will end up blank pages and I don't want to loose my rank.
So I'm looking for a way to inform Google about new page URLs. Domain is same, only URLs. For example: the home page was /default.asp and now /home.aspx
Is there a way to tell Google that a particular URL address or page name has changed?
If all that is changing are the page URLs, Google Analytics cannot "know" that a page is the same, just with diferent URL.
But, you could apply a customized pageview using the _trackPageView() method, giving it the original url as parameter.
If you choose to do this, you will have to exclude the line that uses the method in the original GA code and apply it elsewhere, or pass the parameter to it directly with the orignial URL. All this is done in each page.
You can also read more about the method here.
For IIS (Asp.Net) you want to look into the following to find out how to do 301 redirects:
Response.RedirectPermanent(...) for redirecting from a page
or
"IIS 7 Routing Module and web.config" to set up bulk redirecting
I'd also suggest you consider supporting Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs while your making the move. The Routing Module can help you there as well.
You need to implement some form of 301 (301 is key) redirects. This way when google or any other search hits the old page, the index is refreshed with the new page. Asp.net allows you to do these redirects even at the IIS level, and where I'd suggest that they live. You'll also want to submit an up to date site map on webmaster tools.
Edit: Here's a good link on the redirects, http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/httpRedirect
I have a customer that been on the web for some time. They have bought a domain name that describe it product, and a second one more up to date. Now that company has evolved to something more general and has bought a 3rd domain - something like:
vegetables.com (2005)
ecolo-vegetables.com (2006)
good-health-eating.com (2009)
Here are my questions:
What is the bet way to get all those domains under the new name?
The new name is unknown to search engine and other linker, I don't want to lose the ranking, so what is the best way to keep that ranking?
Can I point URLs to the "best" ranked domain?
What append to the backlinker? they link to which domain?
The new domain has a "-" in the name... which is really good to SEO but a little unnatural to type, should I get the no dash version too?
n.b. It make sense to redirect all the domain under the same, but will you choose the oldest (with modrewrite) or the newest but with no life under it's belt (so it doesn't exist anywhere in search engine)
another p.s. Some will tell me to redirect with .htaccess, but should I change the dns to point to the last .com. which solution is better
Are all three sites "Different" or do they point to the same website/content?
Use 301 Redirects to redirect your old domain names to the new domain names. If all domains are pointing to the same website, make sure you also use the Canonical Tag on all your pages.
If you 301 Redirect from the old domain names / urls, your rankings will be transfered to your new domain/pages. (the only exception to this may be any extra points you get from embedded keywords in your old domain names).
You should point old urls to your "new" urls/domain. Rankings and link juice should/will be transfered to the new urls/domain.
Ideally all your backlinks should update their links to the new domain, but it doesn't really matter. If the old domains are 301 redirecting to the new domain anyway, point to the old domain is just like pointing to the new domain.
Definitely get the no-dash version of the domain as well and just have it 301 redirect to the actual domain you want to target.
I'll give this a go.
1. You could possibly have redirects or just allow the DNS of the domain to point to the new (desired) website.
2. It's not hard to understand SEO (Search Engine Optimization) nowadays - ensuring you have the correct meta tags and other SE info will give you a big helping hand. There isn't any way of transferring SE ranks.
3. That's possible. You could have ABCDEF.COM at number 3 on google, but then set ABCDEF.COM to redirect to GHIJKL.COM.
4. If you set up redirects, and the new site has the same content as the old one, there is the possiblity of setting up your DNS and your redirect to redirect to the new version of the previous page on the new website.
( I don't think I worded that very well, hope you catch my drift )
5. Out of pure experience I'd say yes, get both. That way you can market to your customer audience as ABCDEF.com, but show to SEs as AB-CD-EF.COM.
Here is the best answer i got from this link
302 and 301 Redirects
When a request for a page or URL is
made by a browser, agent or spider,
the web server where the page is
hosted checks a file called
'.htaccess'. This file contains
instructions on how to handle specific
requests and also plays a key role in
security. The '.htaccess' file can be
modified so that it instructs
browsers, agents or spiders that the
page has either temporarily moved (302
redirect) or permanently moved (301
redirect). It is usually possible to
implement this redirect without
messing with the '.htaccess' file
directly, using your web host's
control panel instead.
From a search engine perspective, 301
redirects are the only acceptable way
to redirect URLs. In the case of
moved pages, search engines will index
only the new URL, but will transfer
link popularity from the old URL to
the new one so that search engine
rankings are not affected. The same
behavior occurs when additional
domains are set to point to the main
domain through a 301 redirect.
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First off, ensure you're using "301 redirects" rather than "302 redirects" or the link juice (PageRank) won't transfer to the destination URL. You can verify that 301s (not 302s) are in place by using a "server header checker" like this one. Only a 301 tells engines the previous URL has moved permanently and thus forwards the page's link equity to the new location.