Changing Site Domain

Quick htaccess question

I am changing the domain associated with a site and want to know if I can setup the htaccess to make the following types of redirects:

Redirect http://www.oldomain.com/contact-us

to http://www.newdomain.com/contact-us

Basically a global redirect that redirects to the new domain but keeps the rest of the URL that the user typed.

UPDATE: I ended up using the 开发者_StackOverflow社区following code and it works perfectly

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

Sure, you can do this easily without having to mess with cryptic RewriteEngine commands. (RewriteEngine has its place, but it's certainly not needed for something as simple as this.)

Redirect permanent / http://newdomain.com/

The Redirect directive automatically preserves anything following the portion of the path it's been instructed to redirect. The documentation for the Redirect directive explains this with an example:

Example:

Redirect /service http://foo2.bar.com/service

If the client requests http://myserver/service/foo.txt, it will be told to access http://foo2.bar.com/service/foo.txt instead.

This should do it for you.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldname\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^oldname\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newname.com/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]

Batfan,

If you control your own httpd, perhaps you can check on the settings of NameVirtualHost directive in httpd.conf. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost

By default, httpd is not configured to do name-based virtual hosting. You need to enable that through NameVirtualHost. Afterwards, try to do the redirects as suggested by Greg Hewgill.

Let us know if that works.

Thanks, Ismael Casimpan