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I have moved my Magento files from sub-domain "/magento" to root folder successfully, and I created and generated the google sitemap from admin catalog > google sitemap, and I added "Disallow: /magento/" to robots.txt file, but I still see "www.mydomain.com/magento/‎" shows when I do seach in google by writing "site:www.mydomain.com"

I tried also to remove robots.txt from root and I went to System > Configuration > General > Design, and at Default Robots I choose "INDEX, FOLLOW"

Still I see "www.mydomain.com/magento/‎" appear in google search

I hope someone can guide me with a solution it would be appreciated.

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In your .htaccess file, you would use this line to 301 redirect correctly:

RedirectPermanent /magento/ http://www.Your_Domain.com/

That will 301 redirect everything that was in the /magento directory to your main domain without the sub-directory. It will properly keep all the URLs intact that were in the magento directory. Nice and clean.

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  • After doing your redirection I got 503 error "service not available" on both front end and back end, I had to google the problem and I found that I have to delete maintenance.flag file from root directory to get back everything, it was hardest 5 minutes I felt
    – Khalil
    Commented Apr 20, 2014 at 23:00
  • I did your solution again and it works without any problem, Thank you
    – Khalil
    Commented Apr 20, 2014 at 23:42
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Just to be clear ALL indexed urls in Google stays there for minimum 90 days. Second in your root's .htaccess file just add Disallow: /magento/ to prevent search engines to crawl or index that directly any further. Finally just to be safe add a 301 Redirect to redirect all who ever land up on /magento/ directory to your store's home page.

Ensure that under no circumstances anyone can access /magento/ directory, if they do they are redirected to store's home page.

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First of all you should allow /magento/ in robots.txt because Google shouldn't index this pages and it shouldn't know about that your pages moved to different url. Next step - you should re-check your url configuration(it may be rewritten on other scopes), flush cache, reindex URL rewrites and re-generate sitemap.xml file and check it for correct url's. Than you should make 401 redirect from yourdomain.com/magento/something.html to yourdomain.com/something.html. You can make it via .htaccess(if you using Apache) or server configuration if you using nginx. Than you should try go to https://www.google.com/search?q=site:yourdomain.com and try go to few links, if it's redirecting correct - great. If no - you should re-check your redirect configuraion. After all changes you should re-upload sitemap.xml in your Google Webmaster tools.

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  • Thanks Igor for the detailed answer, just need to know how to do 401 redirection what I have done is that: ` RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/magento RewriteRule ^(.*)magento$ cabas-durables.fr/$1 [R=401,L] ` I think this is wrong redirection
    – Khalil
    Commented Apr 19, 2014 at 15:41

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