Welcome to my new domain

I’m really getting good at this…. If you’ve been reading IT talks! since its inception last year (actually it was “born” in 2004), you’d know that I’ve transferred the site (address-wise) twice now. In its infancy, the blog was found at http://ittalkscolumn.blogspot.com. When I started acquiring domains, I put the site under http://ittalks.robilloblog.com, thinking I’d host all my blogs under the robilloblog.com domain. And now, once and for all, my IT column is here to stay: www.ittalks.net.

For those of you who’ve linked to my blog posts, don’t worry — they will still automatically resolve to the correct posts under the new domain.

For example (try the link!):
http://ittalks.robilloblog.com/2008/03/19/pdf-anyone
http://www.ittalks.net/2008/03/19/pdf-anyone

In case you’d like to know how this was accomplished, here’s what I did. You’ll need to have access to your website account’s filesystem (via cPanel or shell access). In your document root, locate the “.htaccess” file. Inside it, insert the code below:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yournewsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

As for WordPress, it was very straightforward. I simply copied over all my files from the old account to the new one, and transferred the database over as well. Ah! the wonders of phpMyAdmin and cPanel! Here’s a reliable resource that can guide you when you have to transfer your WordPress intallation to another server: [Click!]

I hope that you’ll take the time to update your blogrolls to reflect my new URL — that is, if you’ve linked to me. If not, I hope you’ll do me the favor !