Adding multiple domains

I have just bought a new domain for my forums but I'm trying to find out which is the best way to do it. The new domain is ffforums.net and so I would like to use it as a secondary domain for my main one which is finalfantasyforums.net. Is there a safer way to do this 'cause I don't want to see any duplicate content for having both domains on one site, know what I mean?

Note that whenever I say "use", I would like the second domain to be usable so users will be able to access my site using BOTH domains, no redirects or anything like that.

Anyone please?

And really sorry to bump this thread.

Hello,

you should setup a redirect to your main domain to avoid duplicate content issues. All links created by vBSEO will point to the main domain as defined in vBulletin admincp options.

Like I said, I don't want to use any redirects or anything like that. I just wanna have my secondary domain NOT to create any duplicate URLs and all, you know, prevent any bannable activities on Google and other SE's.

Final Fantasy Forums - An Unofficial Community to Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Forums - An Unofficial Community to Final Fantasy

To accomplish that, you need to 301 redirect the secondary domain to the primary domain.

I'm sorry, not to sound like an idiot or anything but how do I do that exactly? I'm kinda new to this thing...

Info here: i have 2 parked domains?

Alright I've done what you said so now this is how my .htaccess file looks like. Is this correct as I just wanna make sure of it?

No, it looks like you removed the ! in the first line. Copy the default lines as shown in my linked post, and edit the domain name parts only.

Damn actually my post was messed up so some stuff were missing. I had to upload my .htacess file as an attachment so please download it and see if there's anything that I've made a mistake, typo or error.

Anyone?

You should use:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www\.finalfantasyforums\.net
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/$1 [R=301,L]

Alright it's all done but could you confirm my file please if everything's just fine?

Also it seems that my second domain doesn't seem to work here and instead, it's redirecting me to the main one. What's wrong?

Originally Posted by Darkblade

Also it seems that my second domain doesn't seem to work here and instead, it's redirecting me to the main one. What's wrong?

That's what it is supposed to do. For SEO purposes you only want ONE domain to point to your content.