How to redirect a site to external site?

I'm moving my blog to a new host and am changing the domain name and url structure of the site. Anyone know of a redirect script that can be used for this? Current url structure is http://oldsite/folder/name_of_blog_post. The new structure will be http://newsite/name_of_blog_post. How can i ensure t

• I plan to redirect with the httaccess file. Also note that this a wordpress site. Maybe there is a plugin I can leverage?

• Answer:

  Here is the rewrite rule I use for such scenarios. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newsite$1 [R=301,L] I include a rewrite condition, but it isn't really necessary unless you want to handle multiple domains matched to multiple destinations.