Resolved Website Redirect: How to remove directories in URL?

[redosjos]

Server operating system version

Linux

Plesk version and microupdate number

Obsidian 18.0.50

I have set up domain forwarding via Plesk. For this, I created a subdomain in Plesk and selected Redirect as the hosting type.

The redirect also works, but I want the URL structure not to be supplied:

https://oldwebsite.com/posts/abcdef

should redirect to

https://newwebsite.com/

but it redirects to

https://newwebsite.com/posts/abcdef

How do I make the redirect go purely to the new website, without any additional URL attachments?

Thank you.

 

[Peter Debik]

When you enter the forwarding URL in Plesk, Plesk adds a slash to it, but what you want is the forwarding without slash. In the GUI this can be achieved by adding the default homepage to the URL, e.g. do not enter "https://newwebsite.com", but "https://newwebsite.com/index.php".

 

[redosjos]

When you enter the forwarding URL in Plesk, Plesk adds a slash to it, but what you want is the forwarding without slash. In the GUI this can be achieved by adding the default homepage to the URL, e.g. do not enter "https://newwebsite.com", but "https://newwebsite.com/index.php".

Hi Peter! Thank you for your answer.

I updated the forwarding URL as you recommended and added /index.php, but now it redirects to:

https://newwebsite.com/index.phpposts/abcdef

It still has bluntly taken the directory structure. Should I add a slash to index.php/ maybe?

 

[redosjos]

Hi Peter! Thank you for your answer.

I updated the forwarding URL as you recommended and added /index.php, but now it redirects to:

https://newwebsite.com/index.phpposts/abcdef

It still has bluntly taken the directory structure. Should I add a slash to index.php/ maybe?

Update: When I use index.php/ with slash at the end, then it happens again as described in the initial post.

Is there any other way to make sure it removes all directory or am I doing something wrong?

 

[Peter Debik]

Let's remove the redirect altogether and change the usage type to website again. Then create an .htaccess file in the document root directory of that website and only add this one line to it:

Redirect 301 / https://newwebsite.com

 

[redosjos]

Let's remove the redirect altogether and change the usage type to website again. Then create an .htaccess file in the document root directory of that website and only add this one line to it:

Redirect 301 / https://newwebsite.com

Hi Peter.

Thank you for your answer and support. Yes, I'll use a htaccess then, this should work as well. The pure redirect rule still includes the URL suffix though. This is why I used the following code shown below.

In case anyone else wants to have this solution in the future, this is the content of the .htaccess and should also remove all suffixes of the URL:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://newwebsite.com/ [R=301,L]