FYI I also had to add this line to the .htaccess file:
redirect /olddirectory http://articles.inneralchemycenter.com/
because inneralchemycenter.com/olddirectory would not redirect with your .htaccess mod
inneralchemycenter.com/olddirectory/ and all other links redirected but not inneralchemycenter.com/olddirectory (w/o trailing slash)
All the other permalinks redirected like a charm, and with the extra line inneralchemycenter.com/olddirectory (w/o trailing slash) also redirected.

Another thing, at first I couldn’t get it to work because I was not moving files from olddirectory. I didn’t have the need to put them in a new directory, however, the .htaccess file would not start redirecting until I did move the olddirectory to a new one. That is, at first I just pointed the subdomain to my old directory, trying to save a step, but then I changed old directory name to a new name, and repointed my subdomain. Now it works perfect!

Thanks again for the great and simple instructions!

Tom

I am migrating my brother’s current blog from http://bewakoof.com/blog to http://mag.bewakoof.com/

As the subdirectory name is blog and the subdomain is mag, does this process still hold good? I have done all the processes listed above and in .htaccess I am using:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*) http://www.mag.bewakoof.com/$1 [R=301,NC]

Is this fine? I am unable to see any of the 2 – neither /blog or mag.bewakoof.com

Can you please help? My bro’s blog is down and I am going to get killed

Regards,
Aman

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://dev.your_domain_name.com’, ‘http://www.your_domain_name.com’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’;
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://dev.your_domain_name.com’,’http://www.your_domain_name.com’);
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘http://dev.your_domain_name.com’, ‘http://www.your_domain_name.com’);

Thanks!

I had installed wordpress on root. say for example : http://www.mydomain.com

I was posting there since last 2 years.

Now I have shifted that blog to : subdomain.mydomain.com/folder/

and then installed a fresh wordpress on root at : http://www.mydomain.com

So my old article links is broken.

Can you please guide me, how I can reduce effect of SEO. Where I should put .htaccess file and what I should write in that ?

please help.

Thanks a lot for your tutorial. But i’d like to add a couple of things, because i had some issues moving from /blog to blog.weasfrikis.cl

First of, as soon as you can log in to the admin panel, make sure to go to the Plugins Tab and disable them all. This because a lot of the config files keep records on plain text in the options table of the plugins, pointing to the old address.

Then you can go and set them up one by one to confirm they have the new url correctly saved and without issues on your blog.

The other thing that is important is to enter the “Permalink” tab. Even though it might have written the correct URL for the links, press the SAVE button to “refresh” the database.

This would avoid the “404 not Found” post/article/page issue.

Also if you are getting “500 Internal Server Error”, you might have to edit the WordPress .htaccess file and comment the info using # at the beginning of the file because it makes a horrific loop inside the server.

I hope this answers everybody’s problems as I had to figure them out.

Thanks a lot again!!

Greets From Chile!

thank you ..