I am terribly sorry to pester you further but I have been trying and trying all day and things just don’t go.

Currently the domains browns.co.uk, brownsbox.com and mainsdata.com all point to 217.46.224.255.

What I would like to happen is that when the client enters either or that they get /index.php but when they put in , I would like them either to get /mainsdata.php or /mainsdata/index.php. Finally, I am constrained to using just one server of either a physical variety or a virtual variety.

Many thanks for your help.

Straing to your question, I understand you want requests to http://www.new-domain.com to be redirected to http://www.old-domain.com/new-domain, you do that by placing this rule into newdomain.com.


RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.∗)$ http://www.old-domain.com/new-domain/$1 [R=301,L]


A request to http://www.new-domain.com/foobar will now be redirected to http://www.old-domain.com/new-domain/foobar

Like everyone else, I think you’ve very successfully broken down a mystical whole into its understandable parts and deftly strung the parts together to form a coherent and engaging narrative, just like a string of beads, well done!

Now onto a problem. I would like http://www.new-domain.com to point to http://www.old-domain.com/new-domain/, the only problem is though that http://www.new-domain.com and http://www.old-domain.com share the same IP address and the same host (naturally). Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance.

Anyway, terminology mistakes apart, I think you can do just well by simple make a redirect from domain A to B and let the domain change. If you do it properly, in a few days or weeks at most all your search engine traffic will be linking directly to the new domain.

The reason I want to do that is because we have a listing directory installed on one server with Domain A but we prefer Domain B and want to use that instead.

Now, why would you want to do that?

Does that make sense?

Something like this is very popular:

RewriteRule ^path.php?par1=(.)&par2=(.)$ http://www.domain.tld/path/pretty-url-$1-and-$2 [R=301,L]

I have seen this in a lot of websites where ‘one’ php file is used to show details of many resources identified by an id or a slug.

@DJPumpkin –

from
http://www.oldomain.com/path/page
to
http://www.newdomain.com/path/to/page

If your directory is going to be static across the site, then it’s as easy as doing

RewriteRule ^path/(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/path/to/$1 [R=301,L]

Now, if “path” and “to” are to change according to context (e.g., dates or categories) then it may become much more complex.

What if you are moving to a new site with a different site structure? For instance:

from
http://www.oldomain.com/path/page
to
http://www.newdomain.com/path/to/page

What redirect command is needed to take into account the new subdirectory?