redirecting with .htaccess

englishpremier · 22 Dec 2008 at 15:30

I want to redirect an entire domain/site domain www.mydomain.co.uk to a completely different site e.g www.myotherdomain.com/index

I tired adding a 301 redirect to the .htaccess file but i get an internal server error.

Normally i would do this using the control pannel on the hosting/regestrar, doesn't offer any forwarding options or anything unless you upgrade your package.

hosting is with donhost and the domain with fasthosts.

p.s i didn't buy these personally, been roped into it at work.

Gav · 22 Dec 2008 at 19:15

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/3085/redirect-webpages-or-urls-using-htaccess/

englishpremier · 23 Dec 2008 at 09:19

Thanks, looking at that I have the following in the .htaccess in both the / and the www folders.

redirect permanent / http://angliantrailers.co.uk/
redirect permanent /public_html http://angliantrailers.co.uk/

but when I go to the site i get the following error:

Code:

Internal Server Error, this is an error with your script, check your error log for more information.

englishpremier · 23 Dec 2008 at 09:27

Thanks, looking at that I have the following in the .htaccess in both the / and the www folders.

redirect permanent / http://angliantrailers.co.uk/
redirect permanent /public_html http://angliantrailers.co.uk/

but when I go to the site i get the following error:

Code:

Internal Server Error, this is an error with your script, check your error log for more information.

malef!c · 23 Dec 2008 at 12:09

Try something like:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

where domain.co.uk is the second URL to want to redirect to.

malef!c · 23 Dec 2008 at 12:45

As a follow on - I don't think you need the /public_html bit as thats the default location, so you could try what you have without that bit, just put it as a slash.

englishpremier · 2 Feb 2009 at 12:12

I have yet more problems with .htaccess and redirecting. i am trying to permantly redirect a site that is on a linux/unix server so my .htaccess looks like this;

Code:

redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.angliantrailers.co.uk/refrigeratedtrailers.html
redirectMatch permanent ^(.*)$ http://www.angliantrailers.co.uk/refrigeratedtrailers.html

When visiting the old site i get the following:

Internal Server Error, this is an error with your script, check your error log for more information.

Any ideas?