.htaccess with multiple sites

**onlineart** · 06-12-2007, 12:08 PM

Hi,

I've been struggling to find the answer to my question for days - can anyone help me - using simple

terms PLEASE?

I have 4 domain names all on the same web host, 1 which is in the / directory I want to keep as is. I have another sub directory which has another index page in it, and my web host points my 3 other domains to it - so identicle content (at the time I thought it was a good idea to have a few domain names :-(

Well now I find out that duplicate sites / content is bad so I apparently need to 301 permanent redirect 2 of them.

There is lots of info on the web but none showing how to do it in my situation, ie the three domain names all pointing to the same index file.
I did find something that appeared to fit the bill and you can see it 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?

Here's the code and the writing that was with it

REALLY appreciate any help you can give

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"

**Orodreth** · 03:32 PM

The code is correct. All you've got to do is put it in a .htaccess file which you put besides your index, but you do that only once. You don't need to do it more, I don't even know if it would still work if you did.

The "Options +FollowSymLinks" isn't needed for the redirection by the way. It's used to let the server know that it should threat symbolic links (in the filesystem) as if it were real files. You can safely remove it it you want.

Your .htaccess should look like:

Code:

RewriteEngine on 

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