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SteveON

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#84909 10-Jun-2011 13:36

Hello there.

I am having an issue with our domain setup. Thanks to the wisdom of the manager; we have a website on a shared hosting plan with openhost that was not intended to be the production url. I do not wish to re-setup the entire WP site and structure on another hosting plan so I have setup a domain alias.

Sounds great but I wish to avoid the content duplication issue. So in the .htacess file I am redirecting the old domain to the new domain using;

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.co.nz
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.new.co.nz/$1 [R=301,L]

This works for the homepage, but it does not redirect for pages down the tree.
How can I redirect any url associated from the old domain to the new alias domain?

Thanks for any help :o)

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#479718 10-Jun-2011 13:48

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.co.nz$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new.co.nz/$1 [L,R=301]

Updated (twice) to be a little better..

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#479719 10-Jun-2011 13:49

Try this:

RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.new.co.nz/$1 [L,R]

EDIT: LennonNZ beat me to the punch.

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#479734 10-Jun-2011 14:44

Thanks for the help... I tried that but it does not seem to work. I am unsure if this is because we have a wordpress rewrite in there as well. It redirects the homepage perfectly though.

This is the htaccess file;

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^iluvnewzealand.co.nz$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://iluvnz.co.nz/$1 [L,R]
</IfModule>

An example of the non-redirection is here : http://iluvnewzealand.co.nz/kiwi-o-meter

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#479736 10-Jun-2011 14:46

I think that second RewriteRule is conflicting with the last one. Not sure how I would change that, though.

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#479738 10-Jun-2011 14:47

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^iluvnewzealand.co.nz$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://iluvnz.co.nz/$1 [L,R=301]

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#479750 10-Jun-2011 15:16

SteveON: Hello there.

I am having an issue with our domain setup. Thanks to the wisdom of the manager; we have a website on a shared hosting plan with openhost that was not intended to be the production url. I do not wish to re-setup the entire WP site and structure on another hosting plan so I have setup a domain alias.

Sounds great but I wish to avoid the content duplication issue. So in the .htacess file I am redirecting the old domain to the new domain using;

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.co.nz
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.new.co.nz/$1 [R=301,L]

This works for the homepage, but it does not redirect for pages down the tree.
How can I redirect any url associated from the old domain to the new alias domain?

Thanks for any help :o)

Wouldn't you be best to contact the host, as they would know the settings for their server.

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#479754 10-Jun-2011 15:30

Humm, looks like the rewrite does not work. I will just have to get a server setup for separate domains.

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#479760 10-Jun-2011 15:42

See This.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4550829/htaccess-apache-url-rewrite-for-wordpress-permanently-poi...

You have to swap the order around...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^iluvnewzealand.co.nz$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://iluvnz.co.nz/$1 [L,R]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]