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hi, i have a subdomain called "oddnerdrum.info" and it points to

 

http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/index.php, that is what you see later in the address bar. i was wondering , do i have to do anything special for oddnerdrum.info to be indexed by google. being that its a subdomain that points to another address? any help greatly appreciated thanks. derek

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also, i submitted my oddnerdrum.info to google a week ago. lol

 

here is what my tech support for my hosting said.

 

Nina Scott: It will take 3-4 weeks to view your domain name via Google. If the issue still persists, you need to contact Google directly.

 

derek van derven: so you think that there is nothing wrong with my domain setup for google indexing, its just time?

 

Nina Scott: Yes, there is no any issues with domain redirect.

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thanks i tried that for oddnerdrum.info, but it wouldnt let me verify the site,  i  think its because i have it pointed directly to http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/index.php, it wouldnt even detect the meta tag verification they give you or html upload. ill just have to wait for google to index it. which is like waiting for your kid to be born or something. LOL.

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You can wait a billion years, but nothing will happen.

 

You just placed an index.html file with the following contents:

<HTML> <HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; url=http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/index.php">  </HEAD> </HTML> 

 

You'll need to actually send an HTTP 301 response code (that means "Moved Permanently") and a proper Location HTTP header.

 

Using Apache mod_rewrite, something like this would do it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Otherwise Google won't care about you. It'll just index an empty page on the oddnerdrum.info domain.

 

Why exactly don't you use the domain name you've purchased though?

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Well, that's not adequate.

 

Try putting view-source:http://oddnerdrum.info/ in your address bar (works in FF, I don't know about other browsers). It has just placed a file that looks like this:

<HTML> <HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; url=http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/index.php">  </HEAD> </HTML> 

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i never get that far, i type in oddnerdrum.info and it goes directly to http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/index.php where i get a ton of the pages html. what do you think i can do now to get my page indexed by google? i put the .htaccess in the public_html folder and it didnt work. i have one hosting account, the first domain is derekvanderven.com, and the second one is oddnerdrum.info. oddnerdrum.info is pointing to a subdirectory of my server oddnerdrum/index.php

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oddnerdrum.info is pointing to a subdirectory of my server oddnerdrum/index.php

 

No, it does not. That's what I'm telling you. From an HTTP perspective, http://oddnerdrum.info/ and http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/ point to two different locations.

 

Remove the "redirect" you've already made using your control panel or whatever. Then place the .htaccess file at http://oddnerdrum.info/.htaccess

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thank you i deleted the redirect in control panel and put the .htacess file in public_html/oddnerdrum/. i dont know what directory to put .htaccess in now that oddnerdrum.info isnt pointing to brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/index.php. check out http://oddnerdrum.info now, its a blank page. i put the htaccess file in the oddnerdrum directory, im not really sure why. LOL. do you know what directory i should put it in now that oddnerdrum.info points nowhere ? please. the .htaccess code i used was

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/$1 [R=301,L]

 

thank you for helping me.

 

weird, in Firefox everything looks normal, and i dont have any pointing OR an htacces file in there now. but in internet explorer, oddnerdrum.info is a blank page

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If understand what you trying to do. You will not beable to use  the same www (public_html) folder for redirecting the whole site. The .htaccess will interfere with both domains, since there both physically in the same location, the .htaccess will redirect both domain, and you will get infinite redirect loop. Really pain the ass.

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If they point to the same directory on the file system, you can do this:

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?oddnerdrum\.info$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://brendansite1.startlogic.com/oddnerdrum/$1 [R=301,L]

 

You still need to remove the old "redirect" though!

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