Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Gary Goldsack on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/12/2019).

I can`t see the homepage after redirect

I`m 301 redirecting via htacces an old site to a new site on a new domain. I`ve got all the different pages going to relevant pages on the new site, but I can`t figure out how to redirect the home page of the old site to the home page of the new site. It must be obvious, but I can`t see it!
Can anybody help please? 
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YOUR ANSWERS

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  • Long Das: It redirects the same way (301) as your "relevant pages".
    In your old website directory, put these lines in the .htaccess

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 R=301, L
  • Gary Goldsack: That replaces the old domain with the new domain. That`s not what I want to do. They don`t have the same file names.
  • Long Das: Same file name... I don`t know what you mean. Can you describe more? Thanks.
  • Gary Goldsack: olddomain.com/pageone.html needs to redirect to newdomain.com/newpageone
    olddomain.com (homepage) needs to redirect to newdomain.com (homepage)
  • Long Das: olddomain.com/pageone.html needs to redirect to newdomain.com/newpageone
    This is not the same url
  • Gary Goldsack: Correct. All the new pages are different.
  • Long Das: Are you using wordpress?
  • Gary Goldsack: No. The old site is Joomla, new site is squarespace
  • Long Das: I guess because they`re not the same platform, so it makes the this issue. Maybe, you need to manually change them as you want. Or you may apply support ticket to the Squarespace for help. :(
  • Henry Obilor: If it was worpress, how would you redirects.. Curious to know
  • Long Das: Hi Henry Obilor: you can ttep by step follow this instruction for more information. I see it useful for your question. https://www.wpbeginner.com/.../how-to-properly-move.../
  • Long Das: After 2-3 weeks or more, it`s up to how big is your old website data is. The Google bot index all the content of the new one. Remember you will have something to do with Google Console.
    See what it is at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9370220?hl=en
  • Paul Thompson: Use a 301-redirect in the old domain`s DNS zone to redirect the old domain to the new one. Then put your individual page-to-page redirects in the Squarespace site`s URL Mapping tool, specifying them as 301s.

    Then test :)

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/12/2019).