Apache :: How To Keep Google From Indexing Redirect Domains
Jan 19, 2015
I have five domains redirecting to my main site. I originally setup these redirect domains because many people in my target demographic are not very computer literate, and I worried they would mis-spell or mis-type the site name. I want to do what Google does with gogle.com and their other domains.
exampledomains.com <-- Main Site
exampledomains.net
exampledomains.org
exampledomain.com
exampledomain.net
exampledomain.org
Now I'm seeing that Google is indexing about 3000 results for each redirect domain, and I'm worried it's going to hurt my SEO.
My host setup the domains with the same IP as my main site, then put non-masking redirects in the .htaccess. The sites do not have their own accounts on the server, so I can't setup a separate htaccess or robots.txt as their presently configured. How should I set this up?
I have lan computer running apache2. It doesn't have access to the internet. Is there a way to redirect all website requests to the website located /var/www/ ? So if a user is on the network and trys to goto www.google.com it will redirect them to /var/www/index.html.
I hope some of you are using Google Apps and can help me to find an answer to the following question:
I own two different and independent domain names (e.g. domain1.com and domain2.com). I'd like to use the Google Apps (Standard, free edition) with them to create two different and totally independent mailboxes (e.g. abc@domain1.com and xyz@domain2.com).
But how many Google accounts I need to do this? Can I manage two (or more) independent and fully functional domains using one Google account?
P.S. Help section contains descriptions of aliases for multiple domains, which are just pointers or shortcuts, but not a fully functional mailboxes, so this solution isn't something I'm looking for.
Since they had opened it up to everybody, I am adding Google Adsense for domains to one of my spare domain names. I am unable to edit my A and CNAME records myself, so always just email my host to do it. The setup guide is here and my host is having problems.
Google wants you to setup 4 different A records, but my host claims they can only do one on a shared linux server running BIND DNS.
Is this just a limitation of using shared hosting or are we missing something obvious? Why can I not just add one of the A records and miss out the other three?
I want to redirect 4-5 domains to another domain. That is, when a user goes to mydomain1.com, mydomain2.com, mydomain3.com etc. , he is redirected to the mydomain.com
What are my options here? The main site is hosted on a Linux platform and uses cPanel.
What are the different ways which in which I can redirect to my mainsite?
Every domain that I have added just goes to the default Plesk landing page. I have:
* Added them as new subscriptions * Added domains to a current subscription * Verified that the index.html file is deleted * Verified that vhosts is pointing to proper directory * Confirmed that sites work when clicking 'preview'
My .htaccess file redirects (rewrites) all .html to .php... I need to add Google's file in order to verify my account (Webmaster Tools) but it can't find the file because of my .htaccess.
I have a WP online shop using WP E-commerce plugin 3.8.9 together with the SEO Yoast plugin.My problem in that when exploring the product URLs ending with / in google webmaster tools, it displays 404. But the same URL without / is found and ok. I must day that both URLs show up correctly in browsers and the non / version is redirected to the one ending in /.Here is my .htaccess:
Every time I enter my name in GOOGLE's search box and press enter, it returns "Index of /" as the first listing, and this listing is then my site.
The oddity of this is that I have the appropriate META all filled in. I have the following: - The Google Verification META - Content-Type - author - keywords - abstract - description and - robots set to content "all".
I have nothing in an .htaccess file that would cause this because it's completely blank to begin with.
My host utilizes CPANEL which bloats the space with all sorts of misc. folders and other junk which I know is useful, but sometimes visually and organizationally "cluttersome".
Anyway, what am I doing wrong here or what is my host doing wrong here? Why isn't my "www.whatever.com" coming up in the search results instead of this generic "Index of /" crap?
I've been testing out LiteSpeed on a few of my servers, extremely pleased with it! Only issue I have left are directory indexes. A good chunk of my users store files and rely on Apache directory indexing to serve up the content. With LiteSpeed, the default behavior for a folder with no default document is to display nothing at all. I've looked through the documentation and found that LiteSpeed does have the functionality, but I'm having some issue getting it to actually work.
Can someone tell me exactly where the index files for LiteSpeed are placed, what to configure, etc?
One of my customers uses Webmasters Tools from google , looking at what pages he have indexed by Googlebot, found that 180 pages are giving a "DNS lookup timeout" error, tried searching for help on google and the only thing that i found is " We received a timeout on DNS lookup."
DNS are ok, same as the zone file, everything is responding OK, I dont know what can be the issue.. ? any ideas ?
I have just upgraded my website, and set 301 redirects for all old pages.
But on the old website I used a search engine, and in Google Webmaster there are loads of 404 pages with search queries. They look like this: [URL] ....
Simply redirecting search.php doesn't work, so I guess I need to use a wildcard?
I'm using a .htaccess file to redirect only example.com/script-dir/index.php (with www and without) to example.com/index.php, but it also redirects example.com/script-dir/index.php?page=faq and other pages.
What should I do to redirect only that single page?
I'm having trouble getting a Redirect to work. I'm doing a remake of an old site that I did over 10 years ago and I'm going to need to do a lot of redirects once I change over, but I wanted to test it out to make sure I know what I'm doing before I get rid of the old site. My current old site is www.antstuff.net. I will be keeping the same domain when I change, but it's current url naming system is different from the program I use now (Joomla). It's current url syntax goes like: www.antstuff.net/html/ant_farm.html Whereas the remade Joomla site will simply be www.antstuff.net/ant-farms . I don't want to lose all of my inbound links so I'll need to redirect every old page to the new pages right?I wanted to test it first to see if I could get a redirect to work so I added a line to my .htaccess just to try and redirect from one page to another.
Nothing happens. It does not redirect to a different page at all.Also, there is a bunch of other crap in my .htaccess file that has built up over the years. Could that mess anything up?
Update: Interesting thing happened. When I went to submit this post, I got an error that said that there is a redirect in the url that I entered, please use the destination url instead. So I removed the line of code from my .htaccess before submitting. Nevertheless, nothing happens when visit that particular page. It's supposed to transfer me to the other page right?
I have joomla installed on root folder and another joomla installed on subfolder. I want to redirect www to non in subfolder by this code in blog htaccess:
Issue: Upgraded to Apache 2.4.4 and Tomcat 7.0.33. Accessing the website via HTTPS produces "Object not found" error. The error logs (server,tomcat,apache) show no errors. It was working with Apache 2.2
Server OS: Windows 2008 Apache: version 2.4.4 Tomcat: version 7.033 JRE: version 1.6.0_43 Httpd.conf
... and nothing works. My webserver gets hosed, and my otherwise working system gives me an error when I try to get a page from it. I am, by the way, using Mac 10.6.8, with Apache 2.2 on both server and client.
I have a simple app where i am currently downloading some images from the internet. I want to use a local web server to host some of these images when i am not connected to the internet. I installed the apache web server and added the images folder under htdocs - my document root.
Now, i want something like when i continue to query images from www.examplesite.com/xyzimage.png within my app, it should be redirected to localhost/images. Is this possible? I tried doing this
In C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts i added this line URL:...
