Changing Domains: Directing Old Site to the New Site with htaccess

Try:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com [L,R=301]

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

Try:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com [L,R=301]

works great, thanks guys!

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

To do so, you just need to add (or edit) a htaccess file to the root of the old site. The contents of the .htaccess should be the following:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Replace www.domain.com with the domain of your new site.

I've had to move my site to another domain and I've got a bit of an issue I can't get my head around.

I have a wordpress install on the root of the domain and vbulletin in domain.com/forums/

the domain switch over is fine and both are working ok
the old domain 301s to the new domain fine for the wordpress install

though the forum is working on both domains, I tried putting the above code in the .htaccess in the /forums/ folder (of the old domain) but I'm getting a redirect loop error when I do that

any suggestions where I go from here, if you need any more info from me than let me know

any help is appreciated

Hello,

Are they on two different servers?

same server, I got my hosts to set the new domain in place of the old one

the old one is now parked if that helps?

I presume I've got some rewrite conflict going on somewhere but I'm lost

What is your current .htaccess in your forum directory?

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.bbtactics\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://bbtactics.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

that is the .htaccess on bloodbowlplaybook.com/forums/

when I add:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://bbtactics.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

that is when it gets the redirect loop on bbtactics.com

Please make it:

Code:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.bbtactics\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://bbtactics.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

ok I've done that and bloodbowlplaybook.com/forums/ still isn't redirecting to bbtactics/forums/

my hosts added the following to the .htaccess in the root which seems to be working for the wordpress install in the root

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bloodbowlplaybook.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bloodbowlplaybook.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/bbtactics\.com\/" [R=301,L]

I tried a variation of that in the /forums/ .htaccess but had no joy with that either

Rather then parking it, are you able to use it as an addon domain?

it is on a reseller account so should be able to

As I have no real experience with the parking, I normally just use the addon domain, and use the .htaccess from post number one of this thread and it redirects all traffic.

I'll give that a go over the weekend instead then, thanks for your help

Right I scrapped the parked domain and set it up as an addon and used the code as suggested and it did the trick.

Thanks a lot for your help, may santa bring all you ask for!

Glad you got it all sorted out.

I hope he does as well, but I do not think he can afford the Alpine Star full leather suit I am asking for.