I'm no .htaccess expert, but I've tried a few different things to redirect a domain to no avail.
I've got a UK and US domain...some US pages have uk extension, and need to be pointed to the proper UK domain:
www.domain.com/uk needs to be rewritten to www.domain.co.uk/uk
Ex. If someone types in www.domain.com/uk/about it will be rewritten as www.domain.co.uk/uk/about
Edit: Paths with /uk should be rewritten
So www.domain.com/uk and www.domain.co.uk should be rewritten to www.domain.co.uk/uk/
You can try something like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
The important point is to use a RewriteCondition that works on the HTTP Host header. Simply speaking, if a RewriteCond is placed before a normal RewriteRule then the rule is only used if the the condition matches.
The code excerpt above redirects all requests from the .COM to the .CO.UK domain, so if you only need to redirect certain directory, then you need to adjust the rule accordingly, e.g.:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$
RewriteRule uk(.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/uk$1 [L,R=301]
Edit: I hope that this will work for you according to your edit.
The first rule rewrites http://www.domain.com/uk and http://www.domain.com/uk/anything to http://www.domain.co.uk/uk/anything.
The second rule rewrites http://www.domain.co.uk to http://www.domain.co.uk/uk/.
Edit 2: I changed the rule (modified the last one and added another one) to reflect the demand for rewrites on .co.uk/something. If the path starts with uk/ then it just passes through, otherwise it gets rewritten to uk/something.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule uk($|/.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/uk$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^uk/(.*) - [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/uk/$1 [L,R=301]
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I have a domain foo.tech.
I want to use a new domain footech.io instead.
The redirect also has to make sure all the URLs work.
E.g foo.tech/bar goes to footech.io/bar
Here is my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo.tech [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://footech.io/$1 [R=301,L]
For some reason, it decides to add /html at the end of my domain.
So now if I visit foo.tech it will redirect to footech.io/html
If I visit foo.tech/bar it will redirect to footech.io/html/bar
Please help.
Update:
I think the /html comes from the $1
I've tried to make the rewrite rule as follows:
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://footech.io/$1/$1 [R=301,L]
going to foo.tech leads to footech.io/html//html/
going to foo.tech/bar leads to footech.io/html/bar/html/bar
final update:
I made it work now using this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo.tech [NC]
RewriteRule ^html/(.*) http://footech.io/$1 [R=301,L]
This seems to fix it
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo.tech [NC]
RewriteRule ^html/(.*) http://footech.io/$1 [R=301,L]
I have a site that can be accessed via 3 domains (domain.com, domain.ch, domain.fr). The three use exactly the same files and folder, though.
Regarding the .fr domain (and only this domain), I need the following:
redirect domain.fr (root) to domain.com/fr/france.
This has been achieved with the following rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.fr$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/fr\/france" [R=301,L]
It works. (There's also a functioning rule to force www. in front of every URL.)
What I can't get to work is:
redirect domain.fr/fr also to domain.com/fr/france.
and finally, redirect any URL domain.fr/fr/* to domain.com/fr/*
(keeping whatever * stands for).
The trick (to me) is that the same .htaccess file will also be present on domain.com and domain.ch, but those rules must not activate for those domains.
You can put these rules in your htaccess
# Redirect [www.]domain.fr and [www.]domain.fr/fr to www.domain.com/fr/france
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.fr$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(|fr)$ http://www.domain.com/fr/france [R=301,L]
# Redirect domain.fr/fr/* to domain.com/fr/*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.fr$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/fr/$1 [R=301,L]
Try :
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.fr$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/fr/france
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/fr/france/$1 [R=301,L]
i have a multilingual site with 3 languages and i'm using the following rules to redirect requests to the right version of the website based in browser accept language.
#swedish
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^sv.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^q\=) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /sv [L,R=301]
#norwegian bokmal
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^nb.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^q\=) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /nb [L,R=301]
#norwegian
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^no.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^q\=) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /nb [L,R=301]
#all others go to english
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^q\=) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /en [L,R=301]
I need to upgrade this rules to do the same redirections keeping subdomains too
Example for a norwegian request:
www.domain.com/subdomain -> www.domain.com/nb/subdomain
How can i achieve this?
I have thank #faa for helping me out with the current rules.
UPDATE
Question Description
Regarding the pages vs subdomains issue in your comments, in this specific case is irrelevant. The fact is the incoming URL in your question is: www.domain.com/subdomain and, except for the name, /subdomain is clearly a page.
A real subdomain is indeed a domain that is part of another domain and the URL format that holds it, is something like subdomain.domain.com, so there was no confusion on my part.
What it is not clear enough, is how the redirection will be handled. According to your question, but replacing "subdomain" with the whole path, here are some examples:
www.domain.com/ should go to www.domain.com/LangCode/, (previous working redirection)
www.domain.com/page should go to www.domain.com/LangCode/page
www.domain.com/page1/page2/page3/etc/ should go to www.domain.com/LangCode/page1/page2/page3/etc. This possibility is not in the question, but eventually could be neded.
In those cases, the pages in the incoming and redirected URLs should have the same name, but, although in the incoming URL do not have to exist, in the redirected URL the pages MUST exist and so a loading default script (index.php or index.html, for example) to handle the request.
Which means, there has to be a script in each page subject to redirection. I would say at least 2 for each language.
As far a I understand, that's what the question and complementary comments indicate, but it seems it is not a practical approach.
Suggested Solution
A better approach could be a single script at the root folder that handles all requests. This is an idea that can be better described with examples:
www.domain.com/ always showing in the browser's address bar but going internally to
www.domain.com/lang_handler.php?lang=sv or
www.domain.com/page1/ always showing in the browser's address bar but going internally to www.domain.com/lang_handler.php?lang=sv&target_page1=page1
This can be achieved in .htaccess with mod_rewrite directives. Here is an example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Set managed languages here, except default (en)
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^(sv|ne|no).*$ [NC]
# Replace the names of the script and the parameters in the next 2 lines
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !lang_handler\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)?/?$ lang_handler.php?lang=%1&target_page1=$1 [L,QSA]
# If no match, set English
# Replace the names of the script and the parameters in the next 2 lines
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !lang_handler\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)?/?$ lang_handler.php?lang=en&target_page1=$1 [L,QSA]
The above rule set maps silently
http://www.domain.com/ or http://www.domain.com/page1
To
http://www.domain.com/lang_handler.php?lang=LangCode&target_page1=page1
Where LangCode is sv ne no or en by default.
This example only works for 1 page or no page. Any number of pages can be handled though, but the rules have to be modified accordingly. More parameters and regex groups have to be added to the RewriteRules.
$1 should do the trick.
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^no.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^q\=) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /nb/$1 [L,R=301]
I am in process of migrating my old domain to new domain using Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled and its .htaccess file.
we have almost same structure of the new domain which includes
URL's
Database
except the domain name, like it was www.oldurl.com and now its like www.newurl.com and this is what i have in my .htaccess file of Old domain
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newurl.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Above settings seems to be working fine except in one case, we have few URL's in my old domain which has either been removed or structure has been changed so in that case above rule will not work.i came to know about adding something like this in my .htaccess file beside what i have described above
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newurl.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect 301 /my-page http://www.newurl.com/your-page
i have total of 20+ such URL's and i am wondering do i need to map those all 20+ URL to there new URL's and will i need to take care about any order in which they should be put in the file.
i am also wondering how Apache will work, will it look at each mapped URL for any match? or it works in some other way?
The Redirect directive won't be bound to the RewriteCond conditions and will always redirect /my-page to http://www.newurl.com/your-page, also, mod_rewrite has precedence over mod_alias so the RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newurl.com/$1 [R=301,L] rule gets applied before the Redirect directive gets looked at. However, if the .htaccess file sits within the document root of both the oldurl.com and newurl.com domains, the Redirect directive will be applied after the browser gets redirected to http://www.newurl.com/my-page, thus redirecting (again) to http://www.newurl.com/your-page
So, it doesn't matter what order you have these in, since mod_rewrite gets applied first. If you have 20 URLs that need to redirect to new ones on your new site, you can enumerate them each in their own Redirect. Otherwise, if you'd rather not have the browser get redirected twice, you can enumerate them using the mod_rewrite engine:
RewriteEngine On
# redirect the changed URLs individually
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule ^my-page$ http://www.newurl.com/your-page [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule ^my-page2$ http://www.newurl.com/your-page2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule ^my-page3$ http://www.newurl.com/your-page3 [R=301,L]
# Finally, redirect everything else as-is
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newurl.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Note that order does matter here. Having to repeat the 2 Conditions for HTTP_HOST is kind of ugly, you can maybe get around that by using the SKIP, but it's probably better to just repeat them. But if you have access to your server config or vhost config, take a look at the RewriteMap Directive, which allows you to create a mapping of, in your case, old urls to new urls and you can reduce all the individual changed url rewrites to a single one:
Inside your server/vhost config, something like this:
RewriteMap newurls txt:/path/to/file/map.txt
Where the /path/to/file/map.txt will look something like:
my-page your-page
my-page2 your-page2
my-page3 your-page3
etc...
And your combined rules would look like:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newurl.com/${newurls:$1} [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newurl.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I have a URL
http://test.devsite-1.com/test/tbox/
which I want to redirect to
http://tbox.devsite-1.com/
Rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^tbox\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.|)(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/tbox(/.*|)$
RewriteRule /tbox/(.*) http://tbox.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
I don't understand why it is not redirecting me to the URL? Please note I need a generalized rule so that if I change test.devsite-1.com to tempo.devsite-1.com the same should work with the other URL as well.
Try this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^test/tbox/(.*)$ http://tbox.%1/$1 [R=301,L]
This will redirect (301 Permanent Redirect)
http://test.devsite-1.com/test/tbox/something-optional
to
http://tbox.devsite-1.com/something-optional
It has to be placed in .htaccess file in website root folder (e.g. http://test.devsite-1.com/.htaccess). If placed elsewhere some tweaking may be required.
It will only work if request is coming via test. subdomain.
And it will only work if URL requested starts with test/tbox/.
All of the above matches your URL examples.