Can anyone shed any light here? Mimi’s site used to be at eskimimimakes.com, and now it’s at mimicodd.com. The eskimimimakes.com domain is on 123-reg and using their control panel this does a 301 redirect to mimicodd.com
Both the url and hosting for mimicodd.com are at ukhost4u
The 301 forwarding we set up seems to have stopped working in the last few days. Very recently, all inbound links appear to be no longer working for any URL other than the root domain.
For example, if I type
http://eskimimimakes.com/2009/09/make-y ... ckers.html into an address bar, this should (and used to) forward to
http://mimicodd.com/2009/09/make-your-o ... ckers.html, but instead it is now showing a 404 error page on the eskimimimakes.com domain.
If I then manually change the link to have mimicodd.com instead of eskimimimakes.com the URL loads correctly as expected. Typing in eskimimimakes.com correctly redirects to mimicodd.com, and until a few days ago all the longer URLs were working as well.
We think this might be related to a wordpress plugin that has stopped working on mimicodd.com. We don’t know which one was activated but we have Redirection by John Godley which shows a 403 error in the settings page, and SEO Redirection which seems to now be an advert to upgrade to premium to manage 404s.
So here is the question, as 123-reg is doing a 301 redirect at the domain level, is there anything I can do with the htaccess file on mimicodd.com to handle all the folder and longer URLs from eskimimimakes.com? I’m quite happy editing the htaccess file but I’m co fused as to whether this is the correct thing to do in this situation and what rules I’d need.