New Website Launch - Important Redirects

[Janet_W]

Hi There,

I bought hosting on URL=1 and have uploaded another URL=2 (website) on same hosting account.

I am now getting both the URLs=1 and URL=2 LIVE (which I do not want) and getting my new website featured on both the URLs

Is there any STANDARD RULE to avoid this kind of error from starting. Redirecting URL=1 to main site ?

OR do I have to talk to the hosting provider ?

 

[headshotlondon]

Yes. If you dont want to use that URL at all then set up a redirect to the URL you do want. Make sure it is 301 though. Good luck!

 

[OldWelshGuy]

are you saying that you have pointed 2 domain names to the same folder on your server, and that both domains are getting spidered?

if yes, then if it is LAMP (will have a htm/html/php filename then you can you the HTACCESS to set up a 301 redirect match which will immediately deliver any filecall from domain 1 to domain2's equivalent.

if you are on windows, then you are going to have a bigger task ideally using ISAPI rewrite

 

[astutiumRob]

I bought hosting on URL=1 and have uploaded another URL=2 (website) on same hosting account.

Fine.

I am now getting both the URLs=1 and URL=2 LIVE (which I do not want) and getting my new website featured on both the URLs

I guess you're meaning that search-engines have listed pages from both URLs ?

1. how did they get there - they cant just "guess" a url ? unless you mean domain ?
2. setup a 302 redirect to the url you do want used, for anything other than your IP address while you test



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