htaccess 301 Solution

[PaulHudson]

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Hello,

I have a dedicated server with 1and1 which as you say is in Germany. Hence I would like to change to .co.uk.

Would a site wide 301 redirect be ok for this?

I was thinking of the following in my .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.example.co.uk/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.example.co.uk/ [L,R=301]

example.com currently has a unique IP which I would now point to example.co.uk.

I presume the best way of doing this is:

1, Switch IP address of example.com to example.co.uk
2, Move site to example.co.uk vhost dir
3, redirect example.com and www.example.com to www.example.com as above

Paul