Need help with 301 redirect, $15

I cannot figure out the solution for a client.

He has a site on name1.name2.com and want the domain including all the internal pages to be redirected to www.name2.com.

I told him to put the following in the .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^name1.name2.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.name2.com/ [R=301,L]

He tried it but gets the following message:

What do i do?

I pay $15 to the one that solves it, thanks!

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^name1.name2.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.name2.com/$1 [R=301,L]

or

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} name1.name2.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.name2.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Or try adding Options +FollowSymLinks to the top of the htaccess.

 

Thanks!

But this line:

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.name2.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Is the $1 not redirecting let's from:

name1.name2.com/name-of-a-file.html
to
www.name2.com/name-of-a-file.html

He doesn't want that, but have all going to the www.name2.com.

 

not sure jim, but did you try:

your condition was saying !^name1.name2.com$ i.e. the http host is not that subdomain


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^name1\.name2\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.name2.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

I have sent 4 versions to the client to test. Let's see tomorrow if it works for him. I'll let you know.

Thanks a lot.