.htaccess redirect all pages to new domain

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Which redirect rule would I use to redirect all pages under olddomain.example to be redirected to newdomain.example?

The site has a totally different structure, so I want every page under the old domain to be redirected to the new domain index page.

I thought this would do (under olddomain.example base directory):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.example/ [R=301]

But if I navigate to olddomain.example/somepage I get redirected to newdomain.example/somepage. I am expecting a redirect only to newdomain.example without the page suffix.

How do I keep the last part out?

.htaccess mod-rewrite
20 Answers

May be like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^OLDDOMAIN\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://NEWDOMAIN.com [R=301,L]
user_2134640

Just to clarify, after removing the hosting redirect which was in the way, my original solution also works:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/ [R=301]
user_245450 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$
  RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

This worked for me

user_13563490

Simple just like this and this will not carry the trailing query from URL to new domain.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule .* https://www.newdomain.com/? [R=301,L]
user_13450890

This is a bug in older versions of apache (and thus mod_rewrite) where the path prefix was appended to the rewritten path if it got changed. See here

I think it was fixed in apache2 V2.2.12, there is a special flag you need to use which i will add here when i find it, (i think it was NP for No Path)

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/ [??]
user_1043810

From the usability point of view it would be better, if you also send the path with the request (i.e., what you have at the moment) and let your new site deal with it:

You searched for "/products".

Unfortunately this page is gone. Would you like to visit "/new_products" instead?

(and better, still, doing this automatically.)

This is obviously a lot of coding and heuristics for a larger website, but in my opinion it would pay off in terms of user satisfaction (when your carefully saved bookmark of your dream product just leads you to the front page of newdomain.com, this is frustrating.)

user_1131950

Try this methode to redirect all to homepage new domain, Its works for me:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.olddomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/newdomain\.com\/" [R=301,L]
user_101553990
user_109934070

To just swap out the domain and leave the request URI as is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^ https://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

%{REQUEST_URI} is an alias for the requested path.

R=301 is a HTTP 301 Moved Permanently

L means last rule, do not consider any more conditions.

To also adjust the request URI then do this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/subfolder/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]
</IfModule>

^(.*)$ captures everything in the request path from start to the end.

$1 outputs the first captured group

QSA means Query String Appended (e.g. ?foo=bar)

user_11354400

The previous answers did not work for me.

I used this code. If you are using OSX make sure to use the correct format. 

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?OLDDOMAIN\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.NEWDOMAIN.com/ [R=301,L]
user_75570790

This may be work Properly

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
user_97710700
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