How Should I Forward My Whole Domain?

[meamrussian]

I have a website that I no longer want up anymore, so instead of just taking it down, I want to make use of its traffic and forward it to another site of mine. How should I do this? I don't just want to forward the domain itself, but every subdomain or file that can be accessed through this site. How should I do this? Using the domain forwarding in my registrar takes time to take effect, and anyway last time I tried it didn't work. Perhaps there's a way using javascript, or htaccess?

Thanks.

[hasbehas]

I would have just parked it on to the new domain by cpanel. :D

[meamrussian]

What do you mean? How does this work? Can you please clarify?

Thanks.

[hasbehas]

on my hosting; cpanel there is an option "Park a domain" . You can park the unused domains on to some other domains.

I give you an example. www.kusadasiproperty.biz is main domain with hosting account etc. www.kusadasirealestate.org is a domain that is parked on to kusadasiproperty.biz . See it for your self, you'll see what I mean.

[Maneel]

.htaccess would be a better solution

[meamrussian]

Well, I tried parking the domain, but it's not working. I get the default "cpanel installed" page. And, for people trying to access specific files, such as index.php, they get a page not found error. What should I do? How do I do the htaccess thing?

[Boulder]

I believe you could use a 301 redirect to do that. Should be able to set it up in cPanel, I think it uses .htaccess to work as well. I have not set up a 301 myself, However have heard a lot about using them.

You could also set up a redirect for that domain name, at the domain register (where ever your domain would be parked) you would set it up to redirect to what ever domain you wanted... with a record there!

domain1[dot]com = redirects to = domain2[dot]com

Boulder

[meamrussian]

I tried doing domain forwarding from the registrar already, and it didn't work so well, and it took a long time to forward. Does anyone know the htaccess code to use to forward my whole domain to another? I know that it should look something like this:

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

This one isn't entirely correct though. Can someone fix it please?

[meamrussian]

Ah, I just found the right code. I'll paste it here so other people can use it:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

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

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

Thanks, and I hope someone finds this useful!

[Boulder]

Yep, looks like your on to something now! (The 301) Good job! Tell me was the proper code found through cpanel, or by searching the web else where?

Boulder

[mpcovcd]

Go into your cpanel and forward the domain, or go into your registrar and forward your domain