Redirect a specific page on one website to a specific page on another website

Question

I am hoping someone may be able to help me. I am not experienced enough with .htaccess and rewrite etc to understand what is needed.

I have the following already switched on in my Joomla global config.

• Search Engine Friendly URLs Yes
• Use URL Rewriting Yes
• Add Suffix to URL YEs

Basically, I just want page link xyz.org/patents to redirect to zzz.org/patents

I have tried in cpanel but this doesn't seem to work because Joomla overides my cpanel redirect.

I can get xyz.org to redirect zzz.org but cannot do individual links which is what I require.

Answer 1

In your .htaccess file try this...

Redirect 301 "/patents" "http://www.zzz.org/patents"

Just add it at the bottom of the file. Sorry if formatting is weird, I'm on my cell.

Answer 2

Or try using the Joomla Redirect component, providing the xyz.org site is the one running Joomla. Set the expired url to /patents and the "new url" to https://zzz.org/patents.

There are third-party extensions that get in the way of this component doing its job, so it may not always work, but it's worth a try if you're having trouble making other ways work.