[TheTrueMaverick]

Greetings,

I have been googling about this matter myself, but I can't seem to justify what the best way to do this.

I have just bought a domain, and will be ready to be used soon. And I also own an old domain still, and what I want to do is, when people visit the old url, I want it to redirect to the new domain. So in the address bar, it changes from www.domainold.com to www.domainnew.com as soon as it gets hit.

In other words, I don't want the old url to stay in the address bar, and be switched to the new one if someone arrives with an old URL.

What's the best way to do this?

Thank you kindly for the help as usual!

/ S.

[Cid2]

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://YOURURLHERE">
toss that into the beginning of your index.html

[TheTrueMaverick]

Brilliant, will give it a go once the domain is ready -- cheers!

[wpgwiggum]

An alternative would be to setup 301 redirects for your olddomain.

Search engines appreciate this a bit more, and it is a bit quicker than downloading an html page that tells the user to redirect.

[techSeekerX]

IMHO the best and the quickest way is to use redirect directive in .htaccess file of your old domain.

hope it helps.

[TheTrueMaverick]

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for all the suggestions!

I decided to go with the 301 redirect for now, it works like a charm!

Cheers!