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301 redirects when you change a page or a domain

You changed a page’s address, deleted an article or switched domain. Anyone holding the old address (in a bookmark, a search result, a link on another site) now lands on…

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Moving WordPress to a new domain without losing anything

Changing name is more than swapping an address. If the site already has visitors, links pointing at it and a presence on Google, what you want is that anyone arriving…

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Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS and www to the bare domain in nginx or Apache

On a VPS you choose one canonical address (for example https://yourdomain.tld) and send everything else there with a 301 redirect: HTTP to HTTPS, and www to the bare name (or…

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Buying only a domain, with no hosting yet: what you can and cannot do

You can. A domain registered on its own is yours and stays reserved, but on its own it shows no website and receives no e-mail: the domain is just the…

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Where your website files go: public_html, folders and which domain uses which

The short answer: what people see when they open your domain is in a folder called public_html. Anything you put inside can be seen on the internet; what is outside…

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Pointing your domain at a social page or WhatsApp link: redirects on your hosting

The short answer: if you have a hosting account, cPanel has a Redirects tool that sends whoever types your domain to another address, such as your Facebook page, Instagram or…

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Moving from a Gmail address to e-mail on your own domain: contacts, old mail and telling people

The short answer: moving from a Gmail address to one on your own domain comes in four parts: create the mailbox with us, bring the contacts (exported from Google Contacts),…

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Relative or absolute links: what breaks when a site moves to another domain or folder

The short answer: a link or an image can name its target in four ways: absolute (https://yourcompany.com/img/logo.png), protocol-relative (//yourcompany.com/img/logo.png), root-relative (/img/logo.png) and relative to the page (img/logo.png or ../img/logo.png). The…

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Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 on your own domain: MX records, and keeping your website with us

The short answer: you can have the website with us and the e-mail with another service, such as Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. What decides where your domain’s e-mail goes…

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Forwarding to a personal Gmail or Hotmail, or reading the domain mailbox directly

The short answer: forwarding your domain mail to a personal Gmail or Hotmail looks like the simplest way to have everything in one place, but it comes at a cost:…