301 redirect old domain to homepage

I have an old domain which I want to forward all the pages from the old domain to the hompage of the new domain, is there a way to do this?

I am using .htaccess

redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/

but if there is pagex.html it redirects to: http://www.newdomain.com/pagex.html but I would like it to go directly to the homepage, is there a way to do this?

thanks

 

Can anyone help me?

 

your fix may be on the web server. not so much the actual .htaccess file.

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

 

what would I do on the webserver?

thanks

 

If you have mod_rewrite enabled you can do this:

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