have registered a new domain and I would like to have Google completely ignore my old address while indexing the new address.
The new site content has been moved to a subdirectory of the root and my new domain pointde to this via my host.

Is there some code I can add to redirect users to the new site and to ensure Google completely ignores my old Index Page?

I currently have a Meta redirect instead of the .htaccess.

Cheers
AS

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Checks Deodorant??
Am I posting this to the wrong sub-Forum?
Can nobody help or atleast refer me to somewhere that can please?

try the HR Technology and Coding forum if Ron Carnell and/or Randy can't figure it out, label it impossible and use a meta refresh

Do you have this squared away yet?

If not, please try again, but without the slash preceeding index.htm

redirect 301 index.htm http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/index.htm

(all on one line)

Bompa

Thanks for the replies so far folks.

If I'm posting this to the wrong sib-forum is it possible for one of the Mods. to move the thread please?

Bompa
No luck - just a blank page (the blank index) with no error message or anything and definitely no redirect. In fact when I delete the Index completely I just see a list of directories which again suggests the httaccess is not working.
I've since restored the previous Meta Redirect.

As I understand it normally a 301 redirect would redirect to a different server. In this case the redirect is on the old domain which is that of hosting company Force9. It redirects to the new domain which is a different directory on the same server. I imagine this is quite rare for a 301 redirect.

Nope, redirects can be to anywhere. different hostname, different server, same hostname, different page even to the same page if you want to strip out tracking codes.

The problem is how you are redirecting. Your .htaccess will have to use the absolute URIs of each page you are redirecting simply because the redirect is from an alias to another alias (different hostname) that is sharing the same HD space. It would not be an issue if they were on virtual hosts using different HD space.

given my limited expertise on htaccess this may be way off but,

redirect 301 www.dannybaker.force9.co.uk/ http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/

Should send all requests to internettreehouse. If the above doesn't work you will need to get into setting up a RedirectMatch to acheive this.

You will also have to add an exclusion for the /danny/ sub-folder to robots.txt

I recently decided to move my home page to a sub directory,
here's my htaccess redirect:

Redirect 301 /index.html http://filipina-sweethearts.com/mail...des/index.html

One thing I want to mention is that my browser was caching my
old page and it was very confusing to test cuz it looked like the
redirect was not working.

I had to repeatedly go to another domain, like yahoo or google,
or whatever, then come back to my site in order to see the redirect working.

Bompa

All sorted now. - Fault lay with host and incorrect path to sub directory which contained site content.
An extra \ was to blame :-O
Thanks anyway folks.