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Redirecting blog.<mydomain>.com to www.<mydomain>.com\blog</mydomain></mydomain>
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This is more of a technical question than pure SEO per se, but I am guessing that some folks here may have covered this and so I would appreciate any questions.
I am moving from a WordPress.com-based blog (hosted on WordPress) to a WordPress installation on my own server (as suggested by folks in another thread here).
As part of this I want to move from the format blog.<mydomain>.com to www.mydomain.com\blog. I have installed WordPress on my server and have imported posts from the hosted site to my own server.
How should I manage the transition from first format to the second? I have a bunch of links on Facebook, etc that refer to URLs of the blog..com format so it's important that I redirect.</mydomain>
I am running DotNetNuke/WordPress on my own IIS/ASP.Net servers.
Thanks.
Mark
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Thank you. Yes, that's pretty much the plan I am executing now. Right now I'm struggling to get this working with the URL rewriting module in IIS 7 but I am sure it's possible.
Thanks again.
Mark
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Yes, do what Alan is suggesting.
Create the blog.yourdomain.com folder on your own server and then put in 301 redirects from blog.yourdomain.com to your www.yourdomain.com/blog
After the redirects are setup, change your DNS from Wordpress.com to your installation of blog.yourdomain.com.
On Apache servers you just need to create a htaccess file in your blog.yourdomain.com folder, but I don't have any experience with IIS/ASP server.
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ah gotcha. I paused initially reading, and was remiss in getting clarificatni. So if you have full control, you're in better shape to do it yourself.
Set up the DNS so that blog.yourdomain.com is pointed to your server, then you can implement the server level 301s on that subdomain yourself on that server.
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Thank you, Alan. I want to make sure I understand this.
I have full control of my DNS zone entries. I currently link a CNAME record for blog to the <myblog>.wordpress.com. My hope is that I could:</myblog>
- Update the DNS entry to point to my own server (so, blog.<mydomain>.com would just be directed to that machine)</mydomain>
- Implement some sort of server-side redirect that translates the old format to the new format.
This way I have no reason to keep WordPress.com in the picture (with the redirection service) - I basically just create new links to www.<mydomain>.com</mydomain> and have all old links redirected as above.
Would that not work?
Thanks again.
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Hi Mark
You are going to need to rely on WordPress' own 301 redirect solution. 301 Redirects have to happen on the server where the original content resided (you can't set up a 301 redirect on your own site's server, since the original files and domain weren't hosted there).
Here's the official solution http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/
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