.htaccess domain re-direct

[dropandhop]

Hi all,

Hope that you can help.

I would like to re-direct www.olddomain.com and all of its files and subdirectories (like www.olddomain.com/test.html) to the index of www.newdomain.com

I tried to use the following code:
Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/

It worked great when I hit www.olddomain.com but when I tried to hit www.olddomain.com/test.html it tried to bring me over to www.newdomain.com/test.html not to the index file of the newdomain.com (not what I wanted it to do as it won't work b/c that file doesn't exist anymore).

I would appreciate any help you can offer.

Thanks again!
A

[Jean-Luc]

Hi,

I would try this:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com/ [L,R=301]

Jean-Luc

[Nintendo]

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]

[dropandhop]

Hi Jean-Luc,

Thanks for your reply!

Unfortunately that didn't seem to work. With that .htaccess file in place it didn't re-direct at all (when going to both www.olddomain.com and www.olddomain.com/test.html)

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
A

[dropandhop]

Nintendo,

Thanks a ton...that seemed to do a trick!

Now, my question for you is, do I loose loose page ranks with this method? I thought that using a 301 was the best way to go so that you don't loose page ranks.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
A

[Nintendo]

PR will probably go to the new page.

[dropandhop]

I am trying to do one more simple redirect, while keeping my existing redirect intact.

While still redirecting to the newdomain (as per below) I would like to make an exception and redirect one specific file as such:
www.olddomaincom/pdf/notes.pdf
to
www.newdomaincom/images/stories/notes.pdf

Below is what I am currently using.

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^ipaddress\.ipaddress\.ipaddress\.ipaddress
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]

Thanks again for any help you can provide, I just can't seem to get it!

[Nintendo]

RewriteRule ^pdf/notes.pdf$ http://www.domain.com/images/stories/notes.pdf [R=301,L]

I think after the

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]