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mod_rewrite query: I think an easy question

Hi,
Wonder if anyone can help. I've got:

www.domainA.com/folderA/[lots of pages]

I want to setup a mod_rewrite cond/rule so that whenever anyone goes to www.domainA.com/folderA/any/page/URL/ they end up going to www.domainB.com/any/page/URL
I have tried following in a .htaccess file (.htaccess as shared space):

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      Options +FollowSymLinks
      RewriteEngine On

      # This says that whatever we were reached by, e.g. /xyz, we were actually reached by "/". Not quite sure what the pt was in this context.
      RewriteBase /

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/folderA/$
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainB.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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but no luck. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Ben

Robin Hickmott

Try

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

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

Robin Hickmott

Sorry missed out the folder part

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

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

bcops

ASKER

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Slight ammendment required on my part - it's actually redirection from www.domainA.co.uk/folderA/any/page/URL/ they end up going to www.domainB.com/any/page/URL
I've tried following in .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*\.domainA\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^/folderA/(.*)$ http://www.domainB.com/$1 [R=301,L]

No joy though. Doesn't work.

I've also tried validating the mataching condition in PHP and this works OK, so don't understand why it doesn't redirect ......
Ben

Robin Hickmott

Try dumping the / off the front

so

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*\.domainA\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^folderA/(.*)$ http://www.domainB.com/$1 [R=301,L]
================================================

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*\.domainA\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^/folderA/(.*)$ http://www.domainB.com/$1 [R=301,L]

will not work as your attempting to look for /subfolder/FolderA/ but without a .* or a condition before the / the rule can never be true.

bcops

ASKER

Thanks .... but ... ..... so now tried:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*\.domainA\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^redir/(.*)$ http://www.domainB.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Where redir is the folder that was named folder A.
Still no dice, not working.

bcops

ASKER

Hi,

So, can anyone help with this?
I'm not getting anywhere with this.

Ben

caterham_www

And

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ http://www.google.com [R,L]

does work?

bcops

ASKER

Hi,
Thanks for the response:

1. Following works:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ http://www.google.com [R,L]

2. Following works:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^alice.html$ bob.html

3. Following does not work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/redir/alice.html$ bob.html

Any thoughts/contribtions/ideas most welcome:
Thanks, Ben.

bcops

ASKER

OK, I think I have a solution:
RewriteRule ^folderA(.*) http://www.domainB.com/$1 [R=301,L]
without any RewiteCond (so at the top of the .htaccess file), and with the .htaccess file residing in the root folder of the space.

This appears to work.

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bcops

ASKER

Ja, eventually got that to work. Seemed better. Will award points.