How to redirect

[jcuming]

Hi
My choir has an old Joomla website at the address dwhsociety.co.uk, hosted by another member of the choir.
I've built a new site at handelians2.cumingfamily.org.uk, hosted on AwardSpace and owned by me.

I now want to give the other member of the choir advice so he can redirect his domain (dwhsociety.co.uk) to my new site.

I can see there are a range of redirects. He's tried one redirect, but this just bounces people from dwhsociety.co.uk/index.php to handelians2.cumingfamily.org.uk/index.php which i don't want.

He's tried another type of redirect, which DOES show my new site under his domain, but it doesn't change URL when I move to different pages of the new site, so I'm guessing it's just some kind of wrapper and I don't want this as I want each page to be indexed by Google.

How do I redirect his domain to my new site so that all pages are listed under the domain dwhsociety.co.uk but have their own domains - eg dwhsociety.co.uk/contact-us.html
?
Jim

[xfsgpr]

He can paste this on his .htaccess file that is located in the root folder:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://handelians2.cumingfamily.org.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

However, the best way is to login to his registrar's website and from cPanel he can redirect the traffic to new website. It is just editing the DNS details.

[jcuming]

Thanks very much xfsgr, this is really helpful!
(and by the way, what a pretty name)

[vipoo]

I always searched for this solution , thank you

[rltv2011]

If you don't want to use the .htaccess file, you can use the Redirect option in CPanel or your hosting provider panel.
Many webmasters aren't confident or don't know how to use .htaccess file correctly, in fact, if you add or delete something important in your .htaccess file you can make your website disappear (blank screen).