Redirecting

[retinalscan]

I already have one site up and running.
I have been designing a second site for a few weeks and now its ready to go live.
For testing i've put it on the same webspace as my currect site ....however now i want it live i'm thinking of simply redirecting the web address to this location, which is something like:

http://www.currentpage.co.uk/test/home.html

Is this going to work ? and what effect will it have on meta tags/ search engines etc

Greatful for any help i can get...

 

[sonich]

Mm... i don't really understand what you mean retinalscan.

Do you mean you have the 'second site' the same as your 'first site' and the 'second site' is currently like --> http://firstsite.com/secondsite/index.html

But you wanted it to redirect somewhere else?

If i'm wrong please cirrect me and i might be able to help you.

 

[retinalscan]

no that is correct.

i have http://www.firstsite.co.uk/test/secondsiteindex.html

I'm trying to redirect my secondsites domain name i.e. www.secondsite.co.uk
to point at the index file stored in the same space as the first site.

do you understand now ?

 

[bentong]

the best way is the 301 redirection..you can add it on your htaccess file..

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

 

[sonich]

If you have cPanel it would be very easy to do so. But yeah,. bentog is right.