How to apply a redirect for a website or RSS feed (301 or 302) (I use Apache)

There are times when we need to move to a different location, for various reasons (e.g. college, work, etc.). We would either move temporarily or permanently, depending on our goals. Either way, we need to announce to institutions or friends that they can find us on a different locaton, because they will have hard time locating us if we don't leave a note.

The same principle applies to websites. Users might find an old location of a piece of content we recently moved through Google, Yahoo or other search engine, which they would like to read, and unless we notify them, or redirect them to the new location automatically, they won't be able to find it.

There are 2 types of redirects, which are made for various reasons (e.g. switching to a different hosting service, rebranding, aesthetic desire to beautify URLs, etc.): 

• 301. which signals permanent URL redirection (e.g. you sold your house and moved out permanently);
• 302, which signals temporary URL redirection (e.g. you didn't sell the house and you might decide to get back)

There are many languages in which websites are built, meaning that there are many ways how to inform users. You, as a website owner or manager need to notify users where the content was moved, by redirecting them to the new URL, in the exact language.

The aim of the solutions below is to assist you notify the users in the right language your website is built in.

Note: It's highly important to create a forwarding address every time you decide to switch to a new host or service, because the changes you make won't be detected by site-ranking metrics, i.e., your new content won't get the attention of the spiders (i.e. the inspectors which check the quality of the content and offer it to the public), as they will be crawling in the room you used to live and which is now empty.