HTAccess Redirect from temp IP URL to correct URL

[da8iwr]

Hi there
I have built a website on the cpanel temporary IP URL

http://host2.newworldhosting.co.uk/~greenori/

But now the site is live at

http://www.organicsuperfoods.co.uk/

Now Google has both in its index.

But of course I only want the correct URL to work, so i need some form of 301 redirect.

I have tried the none www redirect trick

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^host2\.newworldhosting\.co\.uk\/\~greenori\/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.organicsuperfoods.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

But it doesn't appear to be working.

Does anybody have any suggestions please?

Thanks
Ian

[FireFleur]

Turn logging on if you can.

RewriteLog "/a/path/you/have/access/to/and/the/webserver"
RewriteLogLevel 9

[da8iwr]

Hi Fire Fleur
Sorry can you explain what this is for please?

[FireFleur]

It logs what rewrite is doing.

I had a quick scan of the reg exp, it looks ok but there has to be a problem in there or it is just not activating.

Don't leave logging on though, it is just to find out what is wrong.

Hmm:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.organicsuperfoods.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

try it without the /$1 change it to $1

[FireFleur]

The other thing, you have now got me actually thinking about it :) I knew I should have just stopped with explaining logging, is the \~ I would wonder if that needs to be escaped, may have to but might not.

All the reg exps are different, vim for example has 4 modes, the mod_rewrite regexp is not as flexible as most, tilde may not refer to anything special.

What I tend to do is this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.organicsuperfood\.co\.uk
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.organicsuperfood.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

You pop that in what you had to redirect to organicsuperfood, see all you want do it redirect to not it (!) and that has a sort of circle defence.

[FireFleur]

But don't put it on the organicsuperfood.co.uk domain or you will create a circle.

I thought it was double edged. So on the http://host2.newworldhosting.co.uk/~greenori/ domain ok.

Actually that shows the problem HTTP_HOST is probably not host2.newworldhosting.co.uk/~greenori/ it is probably host2.newworldhosting.co.uk. in which case you would have to strip the ~greenori as well as not trying to match to it.

So if you use mine, then the rewrite rule becomes:

RewriteRule ^\~greenori\/(.*)$ http://www.organicsuperfood.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

if the \~ is required.

[ozbon]

Far easier, why not put a robots.txt file on the dev site that says

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Then use Google's tools to remove a site from their index (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35302) .

It'll also block any other spiders/bots from indexing your dev site. So long as you don't copy that robots.txt file from dev to live, you're fine.