I have a domain www.example.com that is shutting down, but I need to forward it to www.newwebsite.com/example/ incase there are any SEO benefits to it.
The www.newwebsite.com is hosted on a LAMP stack virtual server so I have full access to everything. The www.example.com website hosting has lapsed and so we need to make the repointing at DNS level.
I think I can see two ways of doing this and would like some guidance please!
Route A - Repoint the a-record of example.com, then setup some kinda of virtual host on the newwebsite.com server. Then repoint within that virtual hosting to www.newwebsite.com/example/
Route B - Repointing with cname and use the .htaccess of the www.newwebsite.com/ to point all traffic coming from that address to www.newwebsite.com/example/.
I know how to repoint, but have no idea of what to setup on the new server, all thoughts/help welcome, thanks.