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megab
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:40 pm 
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Hi everyone,

I need some of your expert advice, if not, whole of it :-).

I have a site running which is built on non-joomla, now that i want to design the whole website using joomla and change the host provider,keeping the same domain name.

However, I am concerned on how to make the old urls work even after shifting to new website.(meaning, since google has indexed those old urls pertaining to each articles).

Does it have to do something with DNS configuration, CNAME?

Kindly advice.

thank you
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dpacadmin
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:47 pm 
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You can use a htaccess file to do a redirect of any urls from the old site. Use a 301 redirect to let Google know that this is a permanent move;
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/301-redirect-with-mod_rewrite-or-redirectmatch.html
This might help;
http://www.htaccessredirect.net/

Some extensions allow you to do redirects also, like sh404SEF, I think Joomla 2.5 has native redirects ability now too.
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megab
PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:09 am 
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thank you for the reply.

Okay I still have some doubt on complete shift.

a.Should the old server be kept running to make the old urls work?
b.Should i copy all the articles to the new server to make it work?

your help is highly appreciated
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dpacadmin
PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:56 pm 
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Leave the old server set-up and running
Build your site on the new server and add your url solution to the new server(htaccess redirect or SEF extension with url redirect ability)
Test the new site as best you can with their temporary url access
Change the DNS settings for your domain to point to the new server
After 48Hrs you can backup (site files and database)then shut down the old server site
Check and make sure your old urls are being "301 redirected" to the correct pages on the new server
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megab
PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:07 pm 
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Ok sir thank you for the help,

one last think I want to make sure is, Is it recommended to go for newspaper website using Joomla?

As archiving day to days articles may be quite a task using joomla
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dpacadmin
PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:14 pm 
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There are several good newspaper templates available, you might also want to look at an extension like K2 for more versatility.
I haven't had an issue with archiving a large number of articles yet, perhaps someone else will post a reply with experience in this.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:35 pm 
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okay sir.

Your help is really appreciated.

thank you
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