redirecting to my new domain with js

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hi!!! so a couple of months ago i switched from neocities to nearlyfreespeech and since i really like it im ready to fully move away from neocities. im trying to set it up so that going from therift.neocities.org/example.html goes to therift.vip/example.html but all the solutions i can find just tell people to use a 301 redirect with htaccess (which i cant do because neocities doesnt support it)

this is what i tried:

<script type="text/javascript">
        var restOfTheUrl = domainName.split('therift.neocities.org')[1] || '';
        function redirect() { window.location.href = "https://therift.vip/" + restOfTheUrl;}
</script>
<body onload="redirect()"></body>

but it returns the “rest of the url” part as “undefined” as you can see on the page here: https://therift.neocities.org/not_found so theres clearly something missing but i cant tell what.

2

window.location.pathname is what you’re looking for. For example, '/t/redirecting-to-my-new-domain-with-js/3206' is what that will spit out if you run it on this page

function redirect() { window.location.href = "https://therift.vip" + location.pathname;}
3

that works perfectly thank you!

4

I personally prefer location.replace(), but your answer works too. This one works very well if you want to type less.

<script>location.replace("https://example.com")</script>

Replace your index.html file with this (or just append this line to it) and it should redirect you.

5

worth noting you can also do this without javascript by including

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://therift.vip/" />

in the <head> section :slight_smile:

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6

this is the way, no need to overcomplicate with JS

7

these two don’t really work for my use case since it doesn"t redirect to the same page on the new domain it just redirects to the index

8

Looks like you found a JS solution, here’s how you’d make the http redirect work for page → page redirects if anyone checks this out later

On the root page /

  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://therift.vip/">
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://therift.vip/">

on foo.html

  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://therift.vip/foo.html">
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://therift.vip/foo.html">

on bar.html

  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://therift.vip/bar.html">
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://therift.vip/bar.html">
When to use a subdomain?
9

You have to replace the links provided with the links to the page under your wanted domain…

In my snippet same as above post:
(on file aaaa.html)
location.replace("https://therift.vip/aaaa.html")

10

yeah but i didnt really wanna do that for ~50 pages thats why i wanted it to work automatically

11

…Oh.
Then, uhhh… maybe the first replies were better :/