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Help! Stopping my temporary domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) being catalogued by Google?!

Last post 22-08-2008, 3:01 PM by Pie. 5 replies.
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  •  02-07-2006, 12:07 AM 18418

    Help! Stopping my temporary domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) being catalogued by Google?!

    Hopefully better luck on the Forum getting an answer from Zen re: this query. Nothing worse than a "tumbleweed" :(

    I have a Bronze Hosting Account with Zen with two parked domains. However whilst the re-direct on these parked domains works fine, my original Zen domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) is still getting catalogued by Google - in fact it's the top hit when you search for my site.

    How can I prevent this please and cause the parked domains to replace it in the Search Engine listings?

    Thanks (fingers crossed)

     

  •  03-07-2006, 12:59 AM 18464 in reply to 18418

    Re: Help! Stopping my temporary domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) being catalogued by Google?!

    Make sure the redirect is maked as type "permanent" not temporary (this makes a difference to search engines)
    Other than that I'm not sure.

    Kindest regards,

    James Sweet
    http://www.zen.co.uk
  •  03-07-2006, 6:40 PM 18489 in reply to 18464

    Re: Help! Stopping my temporary domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) being catalogued by Google?!

    James

    Thanks for the reply.

    I checked my Control Panel >Domain Management >Manage Parked Domains but can see no reference to permanent or temporary on the two domains I have currently parked. Where do I find this out please?

     

  •  06-07-2006, 1:23 AM 18590 in reply to 18489

    Re: Help! Stopping my temporary domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) being catalogued by Google?!

    Redirects are a separate option on cPanel.

    Having looked at them though, I'm not sure they are exactly going to work as you want (give it a try though, as its the easy option. Set the redirect to temporary to check it works before changing to permanent).

     You might want to delve into using mod_rewrite to do it.
    So in the .htaccess file (create this file if it doesnt exist) in the public_html folder you'd put something like:

    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine on
    rewritecond %{http_host} ^xxxxx\.myzen\.co\.uk [nc]
    rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.myparkeddomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]


    The entry ^www\.xxxxx\.myzen\.co\.uk is a regular expression - hence the need to put a ^ at the start and a backslash before each dot.
    [nc] means that case gets ignored
    r=301 tells browsers (and search engines) that this is a permanent redirection. Before uploading a version of this set the last bit of the 2nd line to just [r,nc], and when you've checked its working properly change it to [r=301,nc]

    NB I extracted this information from http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php . You might want to have a quick read there.

    Kindest regards,

    James Sweet
    http://www.zen.co.uk
  •  22-08-2008, 12:34 PM 31402 in reply to 18590

    Re: Help! Stopping my temporary domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) being catalogued by Google?!

    @james:

    Hi, I'm a developer and one of my clients has a Bronze cPanel account here.  I noticed that mod_rewrite isn't enabled on his account.  I can't find a way to turn it on in cPanel.  Is this something that can be done from your end?  Or is it not allowed on his account (leemawdsley.myzen
    .co.uk
    )?

     Sorry to hack the end of this thread but it is the only one I could find that referred to mod_rewrite, and I didn't see a generic support email address.

    Cheers,

    John
     

  •  22-08-2008, 3:01 PM 31404 in reply to 31402

    Re: Help! Stopping my temporary domain (let us call it http://XXXX.myzen.co.uk/) being catalogued by Google?!

    Greetings John,

    A quick search on mod_rewrite should reveal the methods by which this mod is used, indeed the answer is seen a little further up.

    You simply need to have the following in your .htaccess file, before your rewrite rules:

    RewriteEngine ON

    Then you simply enter your rules, for example:

    RewriteRule index.html default.html

    Further information can be found on various sites: Google Link

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