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Types of Redirects

There are two ways of creating a redirect:

1. http://siteA.cornell.edu/url1^{Image Added} -> http://siteB.cornell.edu/url1^{Image Added}
2. http://siteA.cornell.edu/url1^{Image Added} -> http://siteB.cornell.edu/url2^{Image Added}

In the first example any URL that ends with "url1" will go to "url1" on the new site.  In the second example any request to siteA will always go to "url2" on siteB.

A typical use of "1" type of redirect would be: http://myoldname.cornell.edu^{Image Added} -> http://newname.cornell.edu^{Image Added} where the content on "myoldname" and "newname" is identical.

A use of "2" type of redirect would be where you have a substantial amount of changes and you may want to redirect the user to a page that alerts them about changes, i.e. http://oldsite.cornell.edu^{Image Added} -> http://newsite.cornell.edu/welcome-oldsite-users.html^{Image Added}

Creating "1" Redirect

This is can be created by create a ".htaccess" file that contains:

Redirect / http://siteB.cornell.edu/

Make sure to have a trailing slash!

Create "2" Redirect

This is can be created by create a ".htaccess" file that contains:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* http://siteB.cornell.edu/url2

More information

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect^{Image Added}
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html^{Image Added}