Moving updater files

[Marty Knapp]

I'm needing to move my update files to a different domain/server without
cutting off current customers. I've set up a 301 redirect on my current
server and if I type the URL to the old update directory in a web
browser, it switches me over to the new one no problem. But, it doesn't
work when checking for updates from my Livecode app. I do get access to
the original update files. So in LC it looks like the redirect is being
ignored.

This is my 301 redirect:

http://myOLDwebsite.com/distribution/updates/2_0/
to:
http://myNEWwebsite.com/distribution/updates/2_0/

I'm switching a Wordpress site over to a Shopify site (dedicated
e-commerce service) so will be pointing the old domain name to the
Shopify store (so can't keep the old setup in place). On Shopify I
cannot setup any directories at all, so I'm wanting to move the update
files to a different site. My old site is hosted at On-Rev.

Any clues for me?

Marty

[MartyK]

So I tinkered with this some more and did a redirect on:

http://myOLDwebsite.com/distribution/updates/2_0/release/update.txt
to:
http://myNEWwebsite.com/distribution/updates/2_0/release/update.txt

Then I changes the data in the update text to point to the new location. I will work under one condition - that I leave the old "update.txt" file in place. Then it will resolve to the new location. But if I remove the old file the redirect does not work - I get a 404 not found error.