Redirect Directory on One Domain to Subdomain on Different Domain

[MrTBC]

I need to redirect all URLS relating to a subdirectory on one domain to a subdomain on another domain, e.g.

http://www.domainone.com/directory/anythingatall

Should be redirected to:

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/anythingatall

This needs to work for:

http://www.domainone.com/directory/somethingelse

http://www.domainone.com/directory/anythingelse

etc.

Please note that the directory needs to be removed from the first domain and the subdomain needs to be added to the second domain.

Can this be achieved using .htaccess please?

Thanks very much for your help.

 

[RobJordan]

Could it be that your CMS system is doing additional redirects or logic after you reach it? Have you verified that you can manually create the redirect URL and access it on subdomain.domaintwo.com?

Can you send some exact examples (you can substitute the domains names for privacy) with the request URL and the target URL for the redirect?

Thanks,

Rob

Rob Jordan

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[RobJordan]

I'd suggest redirecting to somewhere else as a test. That way you will be able to test the redirect in the browser without CMS possibly acting on the request.

Here's an example where I am redirecting to google.

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName

http://www.domainone.com

<Location />
Allow from all
</Location>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*)

http://www.google.com/$1

[R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>

So

http://www.domainone.com/directory/anythingatall?test=1234

redirects me to

http://www.google.com/anythingatall?test=1234

Rob

Rob Jordan

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[MrTBC]

Thanks for sticking with this Rob. I tried this but it still didn't redirect I'm afraid:

RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*)

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/$1?

[R=301,L]

Here's an example URL:

http://www.domainone.com/go/click?a(2423364)b(19134)foo(21071484)bar(6)

to:

http://sub.domaintwo.com/click?a(2423364)b(19134)foo(21071484)bar(6)

 

[RobJordan]

Here's the updated rule based on the sample URL you sent.
RewriteRule ^/go/(.*)

http://sub.domaintwo.com/$1

[R=301,L]
I entered this URL in the browser...

http://www.domainone.com/go/click?a(2423364)b(19134)foo(21071484)bar(6)

...and it redirected to this URL

http://sub.domaintwo.com/click?a(2423364)b(19134)foo(21071484)bar(6)

Rob

Rob Jordan

http://www.linkedin.com/in/robjordan