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How to redirect traffic to another site

Our test enviroinment is set up on our local server as a subdomain (http://subdomain.testingserver.com)

But Google has indexed these pages so that when clients are looking for the live site on Google they are sent to the test server.

Is there a way to set up a global redirect in the ini file or the htaccess on our test server so that any request for any page within subdomain.testingserver.com is directed to the live website?

thanks experts!

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rascal

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Sorry, didn't work - it still just took me to my local site

rascal

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By the way, here is some info from a phpinfo on the mods installed;

core mod_win32 mpm_winnt http_core mod_so mod_actions mod_alias mod_asis mod_auth_basic mod_authn_default mod_authn_file mod_authz_default mod_authz_groupfile mod_authz_host mod_authz_user mod_cgi mod_dav mod_dav_fs mod_dir mod_env mod_include mod_info mod_isapi util_ldap mod_log_config mod_mime mod_negotiation mod_setenvif mod_status mod_ssl mod_autoindex_color mod_php5

Do I need to explicitly install mod_rewrite? If so, how is that done?

venloft

hi you could setup the .htaccess to do a 301 redirect

here you have a link on how to configure in different ways according to your needs

http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

In case you dont have .htaccess you could do redirect for individual files using php header
header("Location: http://newlocation",TRUE,301);

also you could set the Google Webmaster central for the domain , and from there make the redirect

rascal

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Sorry, that did in fact work - I had an incorrectly named htaccess file. Fixed now. Thanks!