How to redirect a website?

[impin]

i want to redirect my old website to the new domain. if the old website url is typed it should redirect to the new domai. how?

[Dormilich]

probably the best way is to make the server redirect to the new URL. this can be done either via server control panel or a .htaccess file using mod_rewrite (Apache) or similar.

[pradeepkr13]

.htaccess should be used for this.

create a file named as .htaccess and put the below provided lines in that and upload it to the root folder of ur website

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mynewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

For some more examples check this.