302 redirect DigitalOcean is a temporary redirect. Find out how to set it up with a little help from our experts. 

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How to set a 302 redirect DigitalOcean

The 302 redirect is an indication that the move is temporary. In other words, search engines have to figure out whether to retain the old page or substitute it with the one found at the new location. Temporary redirects are useful if a URL needs to be served from a different location for a short period of time. For instance, during site maintenance, a 302 redirect informs our visitors that we will be back shortly.

Fortunately, we can complete simple and single-page redirects with the Redirect directive, in the mod_alias module. Moreover, the Redirect directive involves the old and new URL to create temporary and permanent redirects.

According to our Support Techs, we can set a temporary redirect in place by adding the following lines to our server configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName www.domainone.com
 Redirect / http://www.domaintwo.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName www.domaintwo.com
 . . .
</VirtualHost>

The above redirect informs the browser to direct all requests for www.domainone.com to www.domaintwo.com. However, this works only for the home page and not the entire website.

According to our Support Techs, we can redirect more than a single page with the RedirectMatch directive. This directive uses regular expressions to include entire directories rather than a single file. Additionally, the RedirectMatch looks for similar regular expression patterns in parenthesis. Then it references the matching text in the redirect destination via the $1 expression, where 1 indicates the first set of matching text.

For instance, if we want to temporarily redirect all pages in the www.domainone.com to www.domaintwo.com:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName www.domain1.com
 RedirectMatch ^/(.*)$ http://www.domain2.com/$1
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName www.domain2.com
 . . .
</VirtualHost>

Additionally, Redirect and RedirectMatch directives set a temporary redirect by default.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to accomplish 302 redirect DigitalOcean.