htaccess redirect all pages to new domain

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Which redirect rule would I use to redirect all pages under olddomain example to be redirected to newdomain example   The site has a totally different structure  so I want every page under the old domain to be redirected to the new domain index page   I thought this would do  under olddomain example base directory    RewriteEngine On RewriteRule        http   newdomain example   R 301    But if I navigate to olddomain example somepage I get redirected to newdomain example somepage  I am expecting a redirect only to newdomain example without the page suffix   How do I keep the last part out

User · Accepted Answer

May be like this   Options  FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   OLDDOMAIN  com   NC  RewriteRule        http   NEWDOMAIN com  R 301 L

User · Answer

From the usability point of view it would be better  if you also send the path with the request  i e   what you have at the moment  and let your new site deal with it      You searched for   products        Unfortunately this page is gone  Would you like to visit   new products  instead     and better  still  doing this automatically    This is obviously a lot of coding and heuristics for a larger website  but in my opinion it would pay off in terms of user satisfaction  when your carefully saved bookmark of your dream product just leads you to the front page of newdomain com  this is frustrating

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lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt    RewriteEngine On   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   olddomain com   OR    RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www olddomain com    RewriteRule       http   www newdomain com  1  R 301 L   lt  IfModule gt    This worked for me

User · Answer

Just to clarify  after removing the hosting redirect which was in the way  my original solution also works   RewriteEngine On RewriteRule        http   newdomain com   R 301

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My solution as SymLinks did not work on my server so I used an If in my PHP   function curPageURL          pageURL    http       if    SERVER  HTTPS       on     pageURL     s         pageURL               if    SERVER  SERVER PORT       80              pageURL      SERVER  SERVER NAME             SERVER  SERVER PORT       SERVER  REQUEST URI          else            pageURL      SERVER  SERVER NAME       SERVER  REQUEST URI              return  pageURL     redirect   str replace  www        curPageURL      remove http root      str replace  http           redirect    split url array       explode       remove http root      if  split url array 0      olddomain com        header  Location  http   www newdomain com  split url array 1         die

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Try this methode to redirect all to homepage new domain  Its works for me   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   olddomain  com   OR  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www  olddomain  com  RewriteRule         https      newdomain  com     R 301 L

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There are various ways to do this and various redirects  I ve listed them below   301  Permanent  Redirect  Point an entire site to a different URL on a permanent basis  This is the most common type of redirect and is useful in most situations  In this example  we are redirecting to the  example com  domain     This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain Redirect 301   http   example com    302  Temporary  Redirect  Point an entire site to a different temporary URL  This is useful for SEO purposes when you have a temporary landing page and plan to switch back to your main landing page at a later date     This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain Redirect 302   http   example com    Redirect index html to a specific subfolder     This allows you to redirect index html to a specific subfolder Redirect  index html http   example com newdirectory    Redirect an old file to a new file path     Redirect old file path to new file path Redirect  olddirectory oldfile html http   example com newdirectory newfile html   Redirect to a specific index page     Provide Specific Index Page  Set the default handler  DirectoryIndex index html

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The previous answers did not work for me    I used this code  If you are using OSX make sure to use the correct format    Options  FollowSymLinks -MultiViews RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www    OLDDOMAIN  com   NC  RewriteRule      http   www NEWDOMAIN com   R 301 L

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I ve used for my Wordpress blog this as  htaccess  It converts http   www blah example asad  http   blah example asad  http   www blah example2 asad etc  to http   blah example asad Thanks to all other answers I figured this out   lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase    RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    YOURDOMAIN  example   NC  RewriteRule        https   YOURDOMAIN example  1  R 301 L   RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt

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The below answer could potentially cause an infinite redirect loop    Here  this one redirects everything after the domain name on the URL to the exact same copy on the new domain URL  RewriteEngine on  RewriteRule        http   www newdomain com  1  R 301 L   www example net somepage html var foo  redirects to  www newdomain com somepage html var foo

User · Answer

Simple just like this and this will not carry the trailing query from URL to new domain   Options  FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteRule    https   www newdomain com    R 301 L

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My reputation won t allow me to comment on an answer  but I just wanted to point out that the highest rated answer here has an error   RewriteEngine on  RewriteRule        http   www newdomain com 1  R 301 L    should have a slash before the  1  so   RewriteEngine on  RewriteRule        http   www newdomain com  1  R 301 L

User · Answer

If you want to redirect from some location to subdomain you can use   Redirect 301  Old-Location  http   subdomain yourdomain com

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This is a bug in older versions of apache  and thus mod rewrite  where the path prefix was appended to the rewritten path if it got changed  See here  I think it was fixed in apache2 V2 2 12  there is a special flag you need to use which i will add here when i find it   i think it was NP for No Path   RewriteRule        http   newdomain com

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If the new domain you are redirecting your old site to is on a diffrent host  you can simply use a Redirect  Redirect 301   http   newdomain com   This will redirect all requests from olddomain to the newdomain    Redirect directive will not work or may cause a Redirect loop if your newdomain and olddomain both are on same host  in that case you ll need to use mod-rewrite to redirect based on the requested host header   RewriteEngine on   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www    olddomain  com  RewriteRule   http   newdomain com  REQUEST URI   NE L R

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Use conditional redirects with Options -FollowSymLinks and AllowOverride -Options disabled by the Hoster if a few local files should be served too   Sample  htaccess    Redirect everything except index html to http   foo  lt FilesMatch     lt  index  html    gt      Redirect 301   http   foo   lt  FilesMatch gt    This example will serve local index html and redirects all other staff to new domain

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I tried user968421 s answer and the OP s solution but the browser popped up a security error for a checkout page  I can t tell you why exactly   Our host  Site Ground  couldn t figure it out either   The final solution was close  but a slight tweak to user968421 s answer  side note  unlike the OP  I was trying to redirect to the corresponding page  not just to the homepage so I maintained the back reference  the  1 after the domain  from user968421 s answer    RewriteEngine on RewriteRule      https   newdomain com  1  R 301 L    Got the tweak from this htaccess redirect generator recommended by a Host Gator article  desperate times  desperate measures  amiright

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