.htaccess multiple sites?

[onlineart]

Hi, Could anyone explaine how to permanent redirect multiple sites please?

I have one main domain onlineartdemos.co.uk that I want to keep, and two domains wildlifeart-online.co.uk and .com that I would like to redirect to onlineartdemos.co.uk they are all kept with the same hosting company and at the moment the two wildlifeart-online ones are just domain name forwarded.

Appreciate any help for my newbie mind please

[kos]

maybe this can help:

- http://ekstreme.com/phplabs/301-redirection-code.php
- http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
- http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1081

[alainkun]

You can see how to do it with .htaccess here:
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

[onlineart]

Thanks both,

So basically to redirect multiple sites I can just use the script for each site (changing the site address' for each) and put them in the same .htaccess file? is that correct?

Thanks again

[kos]

I can't help you with this one, mate
I'm not the PHP guru here.

Relax, enjoy the forums...you'll get your answers soon enough

[alainkun]

I think you have 3 folders for 3 domains. So put this code in each of this 3 folders.

[onlineart]

I think at the moment my hosting company (1&1) just point my spare domains to the folder which contains the index file for the main site, so they all just point to the same thing.

[ScriptMan]

Now we have identified the real problem;

my hosting company (1&1)

If you had a better host this would be no problem. Setting redirects using cPanel is very simple.

Best wishes.

[onlineart]

I just checked and it does appear that the host is just pointing all three domain names to the same index file, so I searched the web and came up with the stuff below, is it correct? so do I just have to put that in the .htaccess file and put it next the the index file? and do it twice (once for each domain I want to redirect) in the same .htaccess file with a blank line in between?


If both olddomain and newdomain point to the same server filespace, then you will need to tell this rewrite rule not to redirect newdomain to itself, which it will do unless told otherwise.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
#
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.newdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The added RewriteCond prevent the rule from being applied unless the requested domain is NOT "www.newdomain.com"

[ScriptMan]

You are going to have to ask this question from the support gurus at 1+1.

They utilize a non-standard server config and some home grown control panel. Any advice you get elsewhere means nothing.

With any luck you should hear back from them in a couple of weeks.

[alainkun]

I dont know about 1+1. So maybe problem is there.
I undertood that you dont want redirect nothing in onlineartdemos.co.uk So code should be something like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
#
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.newdomain\.com
RewriteRule http://wildlifeart-online.co.uk/(.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule http://wildlifeart-online.com/(.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]