A-Record / CNAME / .htaccess repointing [关闭]

Question

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 newwebsite.com is hosted on a LAMP stack virtual server so I have full access to everything. The 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.!

Answer 1

Thanks for all the helpful guidance, I took it all on board and thought I would post back what I actuall did incase someone else needs a breakdown. To be clear, my hosting is a VPS on a LAMP stack running Ubuntu.

1. Repointed the a-record of the old site to the new one.
2. Created a config file in the sites-available folder of apache2
3. Pointed that config file to where I wanted the hosted folder to be, in my case home/www/vhosts/
4. Created a folder in the above in the name of the old website
5. Added the .htaccess file in that folder with the 301 redirect in it.
6. Made the website active my using the a2ensite command
7. Restarted apache