Redirect an old blog to a new URL

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My old blog was at blog.wafrat.com, and I wanted to host the new one at www.wafrat.com, while also preserving the old links.

My first idea was to use a CNAME redcord:

  • Host name: "blog"
  • Type: CNAME
  • Data: "www.wafrat.com."

And it worked, except for the SSL certificate.

The new blog has a certificate for the domain www.wafrat.com, not blog.wafrat.com.

So instead, I set up web forwarding on Google Domains (my registrar).

I also had to go into advanced settings to forward paths too:

It was pretty quick for the forward pathing to work: http://blog.wafrat.com/about indeed redirected to https://www.wafrat.com/about/, but http://blog.wafrat.com/ redirected to https://blog.wafrat.com/, and then simpy failed.

It took another 2 hours for http://blog.wafrat.com and https://blog.wafrat.com to redirect to https://www.wafrat.com.