By Mirk
Sorry I am very new to this. I have a site on domain.com and I want to know the simplest way to 301 redirect either domain.com/download or download.domain.com to an external URL Can someone go in detail on how to accomplish this. Would be greatly appreciated.
I tried htaccess
RewriteCond %{Request_URI} /download/?$
RewriteRule ^ https://externalurlhere.com/downloadfile/1.0 [L,R=301]
But this doesnt work, am I missing a step?
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Greetings!
We have a tutorial that may be helpful here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-temporary-and-permanent-redirects-with-apache-and-nginx
Basically, inside your virtual host, you could do something like this:
Redirect 301 /download https://externalurlhere.com/downloadfile/1.0
Jarland
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