Best way to redirect to another domain ?

[cosmin85]

Hi!
What is the best way to redirect to another domain ?
I have a .org right now , buyed 3 years ago and i have buy the .net , so
i want to move entire forum to the .net domain . Thanks.

 

[Kerstin28]

• Change the domain in the XenForo basic board options.
• Set up a HTTP 301 redirect from the old to the new domain (e.g. via .htaccess or your hoster's admin interface). Retain the URL path in the redirect.
• Optional: change all internal links in forum posts, e.g. via SQL REPLACE(). This is not necessary with a working redirect.
• Optional: use the webmaster tools of your favorite search engines to update the search index from the old to the new URL. This will speed up the index update.

 

[cosmin85]

• Change the domain in the XenForo basic board options.
• Set up a HTTP 301 redirect from the old to the new domain (e.g. via .htaccess or your hoster's admin interface). Retain the URL path in the redirect.
• Optional: change all internal links in forum posts, e.g. via SQL REPLACE(). This is not necessary with a working redirect.
• Optional: use the webmaster tools of your favorite search engines to update the search index from the old to the new URL. This will speed up the index update.

Thanks .

 

[cosmin85]

Retain the URL path in the redirect.

I dont get this part.

 

[Kerstin28]

You can set up a redirect, so that any call to https://www.example.OLD/some/subpath will be redirected to the homepage https://www.example.NEW/
But usually you will want to redirect to https://www.example.NEW/some/subpath

This can be achieved e.g. with Apache the following way: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html#movehomedirs