Switching Domains and Hosting Please Read!!!

Ratman2050

Ok, I have been using Frihost for about 2 months now. I am getting my site more popular and I have used about 200 MB of diskspace. I would also need a domain if I want my site www.fantasypc.frih.net to go big. I am planning on switching hosts that provide a domain name as well.

My question is do I have to resubmit everything I did to www.fantasypc.frih.net to supoosedly www.fantasypc.com ?
Because that would take forever! Do I have to resubmit over 50 directories www.fantasypc.com and resubmit to search engines create sitemaps etc. all over again!?!? because if so, I would just wait till my site is more popular so it gets on Search engines itself.

mathiaus

Place this in your .htaccess (public_html) Smile

manumiglani

It seems that fantasypc.com is already registered my friend........

Ratman2050

Wow thanks Mathiaus any other useful hints?

Ratman2050

Yes Manumiglani, I saw that I was just using it as an example. Also if I were to change, how would I use a redirect to my new domain from my old one? Any scripts for me.

SlowWalkere

There are a bunch of ways to re-direct.

One such way is with .htacess. Check out http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/en/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect for syntax and explanation of the various directives. I think something like "Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com" will do the trick (re-route any access from the root folder to the new domain).

You could also use the php header() function. At the old location, place a simple php file containing the following line (at the top, before any info is sent to the user)...