multiple IPs/webservers, single domain

multiple IPs/webservers, single domain - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the multiple IPs/webservers, single domain error on your web browser. Problem :

Our main website is on a Windows server. We're migrating our Blogger blog to WordPress and I think I want to use a Linux-based webhost instead of our Windows server for this, just because I understand Wordpress is a pain in Windows environments.

However, I want my blog permalinks to reflect that the blog is on the same domain as our main website (not a subdomain).

www.mymainsite.com/articles/article-number-one

Is this even possible if it’s on a completely different server? And if it is, are there any SEO penalties for this?

Our blog is currently on a subdoman, but I'd like to move away from this.

Solution :

If it is on a different server, the easiest course of action is to use a subdomain like blog.mymainsite.com/articles/article-number-one There is very little SEO difference between hosting your blog on a subdomain or as a folder in the main domain.

Since you state that you don't want to use a subdomain, it is possible but it requires significantly more configuration. You will need to use a "reverse proxy" on your your Windows server to make it appear as if the documents from your Linux server were actually a subdirectory on your Windows server. Here is a Microsoft blog post that tells you how to set it up.

Yes it is absolutely possible. Use mod_rewrite module on Apache to rewrite the URLs.

And if the old URL is on a sub domain and different to the new URLs use .htacess to redirect permanently. If both URLs exist then use the canonical tag to tell the search engines which one to index. That is the standard practice and no penalties involved.

Also change the category base to articles if need be.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the domains, redirects, url-rewriting error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!