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?

Thanks

Just noticed you are on Twitter, I’m following you now. Looking foward to more posts! Again, excellent job, this one is going into my permanent cheat-sheet file for easy future reference.

• Michael
  http://www.michaelbubbo.com

P.S. You can follow me, too, I’m at http://twitter.com/bubbo

For those of us that are less .htaccess-editing-capable…

I wrote a post on my blog last night, that is very much related to what you are talking about here, regarding setting up the “Best Wordpress Permalink Structure” and how to use a simple, straightfoward WP Plugin to help Wordpress blog owners setup redirection for old permalink structures. Please take a look and let me know if I should add anything to make it even easier for Wordpress users to understand:

http://www.michaelbubbo.com/blog/2009/best-wordpress-permalink-structure

I’m going to add a link to this blog post to mine, for those who really want to learn the details of what goes into actually editing .htaccess to achieve these all-important 301 domain redirects, as your explanation serves as an excellent tutorial.

Happy New Year 2009!

• Michael
  http://www.michaelbubbo.com

@Mitchell Allen –

This is excellent! I tried to get my son to explain them to me, but he just says, “Do this and it will work.” LOL

I’m not a great believer that this kind of faith makes Regexes work, LOL. I’m glad you liked my examples. You too have a great year.

This is excellent! I tried to get my son to explain them to me, but he just says, “Do this and it will work.” LOL

I have a PDF on Regex, but it is way too boring. Your examples are more fun. Plus, I finally understand parameters. They’re just like the “good old days” of DOS batch files.

Hope your year is permanently redirected to a successful page!

Cheers,

Mitch

Thanks again for all the work you did for me, hoping to send a few customers your way when I get inquiries down the road…..