I am changing the domain of my website.
But, I am struggling with the domain redirection. I need to implement this wildcard redirection.
So that I visit.
https://www.oldomain.com/page1
It should go to
https://newdomain.com/page1
Note: The new domain is without www.
Can anyone help me how to implement this?
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Author: Nirmal Kumar
ANSWER
A 301 Redirect, or permanent redirect, is recommended when dealing with something similar to this one.
If you just want to hard redirect anything hitting oldomain.com to newdomain.com then a simple Redirect should do like so:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName oldomain.com
ServerAlias www.oldomain.com
Redirect 301 / https://newdomain.com
</VirtualHost>
The above example is also something that you will want to write in a server config like httpd.conf but not in a .htaccess file somewhere on your site directory. It is also clumsy since your old site’s pages – e.g https://www.domain.com/some/page/123 – will redirect only to https://newdomain.com which is the index page of the site.
So the other option would be Rewrite. It is also in case you don’t have root access to the server, and/or other sites that are not yours are sharing it as well. It would look like the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldomain.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
The above considers whether the request is written with or without the www subdomain in it. The old links or pages will also get carried over to the new one.