Setup redirection from one domain to another domain on .htaccess
Setup redirection from one domain to another domain on .htaccess
Date Posted: 24-08-2017
Scenario:
There are scenarios like where we want to redirect onedomain to another domain. We can use .htaccess to achieve the same.
Prerequisites:
- Ubuntu or centos Server
- Apache 2.4 or apache 2.2
- Rewrite module. You can verify whether rewrite module installed or not using the below command
apachectl -M
Solution:
Get the documentroot of a domain. If its a cPanel server, it will be /home/username/public_html.
If its a ubuntu plain server, documentroot will be /var/www/html
You can alternatively, use the below command to find the documentroot.
apachectl -S
Open .htaccess file and append the following line.
vi .htaccess
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Where,
domain.com => Old domain name
newdomain.com => New Domain name
Access the domain http://www.domain.com on the browser, it will automatically redirects to newdomain.com
