Rewrite part of url with .htaccess - apache

Question

I need to rewrite URL and save top level domain and query.
I tried to use these rules
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^domain(.*)$ http://newdomain$1 [R=302,NE,L]
Using this testing tool I found that it works if domain.com/query?param=value is used as a request URL. But if I try to use http://domain.com/query?param=value[ it doesn't work.
Basically I don't care what protocol is (http or https), I just need to replace first occurrence of domain string and rewrite it with newdomain saving all other parts of a request URL.

Answer 1

As it turned out in your comment to the first answer I gave you are actually trying to replace only part of the hostname of the incoming request but keep path and query string. That was not clear to me from your question, sorry.
You have to use an additional RewriteCond for this, since as said before you caanot access the hostname at all inside a RewriteRule. So I guess the following goes into the direction of what you are actually looking for:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^\.]+\.(.+)$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^newdomain\.(.+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.%1/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]
You may want to try this modification to preserve the original request scheme too:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^\.]+\.(.+)$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^newdomain\.(.+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{REQUEST_SCHEME}://newdomain.%1/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]