On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 10:03 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> I've always assumed (without any data whatsoever on which to base that
> assumption) that scanbots won't follow redirects to different
> addresses. Do you have any information to the contrary?
If you mean by 'scanbot' a web crawler, then YES.
I recently moved a sub-domain web site on 1111.2222.com to 1111.3333.com
and redirected traffic, including crawlers, with a simple:-
<VirtualHost 1111.2222.com:80>
.............
...............
..........
<Directory /data/web/do/2222/1111/>
RedirectMatch permanent ^/(.*)$ http://1111.3333.com/$1
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
and Google followed. So did other crawlers.
I have previously, and successfully, moved whole web sites to different
domains and got the crawlers to follow by using the same method.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Paul.
England, EU.
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