How Can I 301 Redirect Subdomains Using .htaccess 1

[tyhand]

Hi all,

I would like to do a 301 redirect for a few subdomains on my host.

Basically, I want Sub.Domain.com to go to

http://www.AnotherDomain.com

I've tried the following but it doesn't work:
redirect 301 sub.domain.com

http://www.anotherdomain.com

Anyone know how to do this?

BTW, I don't know if the subdomains are "real" subdomains -- whatever that means. They are however subdomains in one of those hosting accounts that allows hosting of multiple domains under one account.

In this kind of setup, you can basically have domain2.com and domain3.com under the same account as domain1.com.

They call this feature "Add-On" domains. And whenever you want to "add on" more domains, it automatically does it for you. It's just that you can also get to the sites by going to, for example,

http://www.Domain1.com/subdomain

OR subdomain.Domain1.com. Hence the reason why I want the 301 redirect.

Thanks for the help. Peace!

 

[elgrandeperro]

The second arg (sub.domain.com) in redirect is a PATH not a host name. And I don't think it can be a regular expression.

So try this:

RedirectMatch 301 (.*)$

http://www.anotherdomain.com

(I haven't tested this, BTW)

 

[tyhand]

Hey Bid Dog! (that's elgrandeperro in english)

Thanks for the help.

The code doesn't work, but I'm suspecting it's b/c it's missing the expression for the subdomain.

ie: ^subdomain.*

What do you think?

- Tyhand

 

[elgrandeperro]

Let me get this straight.

When you go to:

http://www.domain1.com/subdomain

to redirect to

http://subdomain.domain1.com

Where are you putting the .htaccess file?

Yeah, I think it should be:

RedirectMatch 301 (^subdomain.*)$

http://www.anotherdomain.com

Let me try this first...

 

[elgrandeperro]

It would be like
RedirectMatch 301 ^/subdomain(.*)$

http://subdomain.domain1.com

But you or your provider must allow FileInfo in your apache config in order to do .htaccess. Something that might not be allowed.

 

[tyhand]

Hey,

Thanks for the continued help.

Actually, I'm trying to get

http://subdomain.domain1.com

to redirect to

http://www.AnotherDomain.com

As far as where I'm putting the HTACCESS File -- I'm putting it in the root of

http://www.domain1.com

Don't know about FileInfo, but I've been able to utilize .htaccess files on the server with no problems before.

 

[elgrandeperro]

yeah, you can't use REDIRECT directive for that because REDIRECT is for URL paths, it doesn't know about the host part of the URL. You can use REWRITE directives.

But you can put the .htaccess in the subdomain directory, so as long as you don't have a path like /subdomain/subdomin it will match and trigger.

So in /subodomain you would have:

RedirectMatch 301 ^subdomain(.*)$

http://www.anotherdomain.com

So as long as you don't have

http://www.anotherdomain.com/subdomain

it won't match.

 

[tyhand]

Thanks again for all the help.
Have a star!

- Tyhand