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Reputation: 276

Domain redirect doesn't work when clicked from Google search result

I have redirects set up for juliaomalley.media > juliaomalley.com

Typing the old (.media) domain into your browser bar will correctly redirect you to the new (.com) site.

But if you do a Google search and click on the old Google listing for the .media domain, it gives a ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED and doesn't redirect.

What am I doing wrong? The hosting account that hosted the old site that the .media domain had been pointing to has been deleted, so I can't add anything to .htaccess there or anything like that.

Namecheap domain setting below:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 1229

Answers (2)

Dusan Bajic
Dusan Bajic

Reputation: 10899

The redirect works for http://juliaomalley.media, but google has indexed secure (https) urls, so https://juliaomalley.media

Upvotes: 1

Scott McKeown
Scott McKeown

Reputation: 141

When did you make this change?

I must admit I'm getting the same result as you from a Google Search.

However, a cURL lookup does show the correct HTTP redirect being given by Namescheap.

$ curl -iL juliaomalley.media
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:00:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 51
Connection: keep-alive
Location: https://www.juliaomalley.com
X-Served-By: Namecheap URL Forward

HTTP/2 301
date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:00:52 GMT
server: Apache
x-powered-by: PHP/7.4.16
x-redirect-by: WordPress
location: https://juliaomalley.com/
vary: User-Agent
content-length: 0
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

HTTP/2 200
date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:00:53 GMT
server: Apache
vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
last-modified: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:27:07 GMT
accept-ranges: bytes
content-length: 37496
cache-control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
pragma: no-cache
expires: Mon, 29 Oct 1923 20:30:00 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

The only thing that jumps to my mind is that Google have cached the result for the search and are directing to the old hosting company. If you have access to the Google Webmaster account for this domain try starting a new index run as this (I hope) should update the results.

Upvotes: 2

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