Domain redirect question

Hi,

I have a couple of domains mapped to one main domain. Is there anything i can actually add say in the .htaccess file that will redirect a domain to the primary domain?

Thanks

Ben

#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Quote from: Kristalin at Apr 15, 2010, 08:45 PM

#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks for this Kristalin, unfortunatly I can’t seem to get this to work. I’m using the .htaccess file that’s in the root of the modx instal. Apart from changing the domains to the corrects ones, is there anything else I need to do.

Quote from: Kristalin at Apr 15, 2010, 08:45 PM

#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Ok after a bit more reading up on .htaccess and playing about about I’ve managed to get the following to work. Thanks Kristalin for putting me on the right track!

#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I’ve added a space before the [OR] and also changed the RewriteRule slightly. Would someone be able to explain what the (.*) is actually doing, and also what the $ sign after the olddomain.com does and the ^ before does?

Those are part of the "regular expressions" that specify which gets changed to what. A good explanation here: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

^ Start of line anchor
$ End of line anchor

An anchor explicitly states that the character right next to it MUST
be either the very first character ("^"), or the very last character ("$")
of the URI string to match against the pattern, e.g..

^foo(.*) matches foo and foobar but not eggfoo
(.*)l$ matches fool and cool, but not foo

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 19, 2010, 09:19 AM

Those are part of the "regular expressions" that specify which gets changed to what. A good explanation here: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

^ Start of line anchor
$ End of line anchor

An anchor explicitly states that the character right next to it MUST
be either the very first character ("^"), or the very last character ("$")
of the URI string to match against the pattern, e.g..

^foo(.*) matches foo and foobar but not eggfoo
(.*)l$ matches fool and cool, but not foo

Thanks sottwell, that was actually one of the articles i’d read and was very helpful. But wasn’t 100% sure on the (.*) and $. But what you said makes perfect sense, thanks for clearing that up as I hate not know why and how a particular thing is doing something.

Ben