How is it possible to 301 specific pages to a new domain?

[Matt-Williamson]

Sorry my confusion - when you said "301 those 10 pages to 120 similar pages on the new site". Then your idea is correct it will be best to redirect your old page to a specific new one - I have done this successfully many times myself.

You can does this with your .htaccess - easiest way for you would be to use this:

http://www.webconfs.com/htaccess-redirect-generator.php

When using the tool you only need to initiate the rewrite engine once then just copy the last line for each url redirect:

include this only once:

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

[Brocberry]

Sorry Matt, that was a bad typo. I've changed that now... I meant 301 those 10 pages to 10 similar pages".

Thanks very much for the link. I might just have to test this with a dormant domain and see if it works, but my worry is that the command to redirect the whole domain will override the commands to redirect the individual pages.

RewriteEngine on

#I would have ten of these:

rewriterule ^index.phproute=product/product&product_id=52(.*)$ http://www.new.co.uk/products/new$1 [r=301,nc]

######## As I would prefer not to do the above for all 100 pages, I would need a way to redirect the remaining pages. I don't know if the following accomplishes this as it's simply a command to redirect the domain?
#######

Options +FollowSymLinksRewriteEngine onRewriteRule (.*) http://www.new.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi - yeah place all your specific redirects first and then add you blanket redirect at the end.

[Brocberry]

Thanks Matt

The domain-to-domain redirect works but the page-to-page doesn't, even when the page-to-page is the only instruction below "RewriteEngine on".

[Matt-Williamson]

try this below 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.newdomain.com/newpage.html
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[Brocberry]

For some reason it doesn't work. I've changed the fifth line below for posting here, but the four lines above it is the code that I used in the htaccess. Because it's a 1and1 server which use php4 as default, it has an extra line to use php 5, which the site has always had. The domain-to-domain 301 works ok with this extra line.

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On

Redirect 301 /index.php?route=product/product&product_id=51 http://www.newdomain.com/new-page

[Matt-Williamson]

I think the issue you are having is because you are redirecting a dynamic URL and this is what is causing the problem. There was Q&A on here regarding this ages ago I will try and find it and let you have the link - unless we have an expert that wants to step in..

Try adding a rewrite condition before a rewrite rule:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} route=product/product&product_id=51 

[Brocberry]

SOLUTION:

Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On

#redirect this type of url www.old.com/index.php?everything-after-the-question-mark to a new url

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^everything-after-the-question-mark$ RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.new.com/new-page? [L,R=301]

#change the above for every specific url with a query string that you want to send to a specific url

#for capturing the rest of the site's query string urls and sending them to a single page - the home page in this example:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$ RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.new.com? [L,R=301]

#www.old.com doesn't have a query string so needs its own 301:

Redirect 301 / http://www.new.com

[Brocberry]

Thanks Matt, that put me on the right track. I have posted a full solution is you need it anytime.

[Matt-Williamson]

Glad it helped and the explanation below is nicely done.