Redirects

Tried combining a few, didn't work.

[chronos]

On the server I am hosting a few personal sites, I have the main domain using a basic CMS, very basic. But when I put in a link from it's main page to my addon domain, it shows the URL as www.maindomain.com/addondomain

I want it to just direct to www.addondomain.com

So I put this in my .htaccess file thinking it would work:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addondomain.maindomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.addondomain.maindomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^maindomain.com/addondomain$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.maindomain.com/addondomain$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule .* [addondomain.com...] [L,R=301]

The subdomain redirects work, but the /folder redirects don't. Any tips? Yes, I did replace addondomain and maindomain with the actual domain names.

[wilderness]

Try escaping "\" all those dots in the HOST lines.

[chronos]

Tried:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addondomain.\maindomain.\com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.\addondomain.\maindomain.\com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^maindomain.\com/addondomain$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.\maindomain.\com/addondomain$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule .* [addondomain.com...] [L,R=301]

But it didn't work. Did I do it wrong?

[wilderness]

the escapes go prior to the dots as that is what your escaping.

[chronos]

Sorry, did that but it didn't work.

[wilderness]

You'll need to wait for Jim or another to check the validity of your lines.

The escapes are required.

Also not sure to the validity of your leading "www." as opposed to the complete URL's.

[chronos]

I've used this before and it works just fine:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addondomain.maindomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.addondomain.maindomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule .* [addondomain.com...] [L,R=301]

Just breaks when I put in the lines for redirecting from maindomain.com/folder

[wilderness]

bump

[jdMorgan]

The reason this does not work is that "/addondomain" is part of the local URL-path, and will never appear in the value of %{HTTP_HOST}. You must check for "addondomain" in the RewriteRule pattern instead. This means that you'll need two separate rules to accomplish your goals.

Also note that

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addondomain.maindomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.addondomain.maindomain.com$

Can be more efficiently and robustly written as a single RewriteCond:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?addondomain\.maindomain\.com(:[0-9]{1,5})?$

This makes the "www." optional, and allows for an optional port number to be (validly) appended.

Jim

[chronos]

Thank you. I'll check into the RewriteRule part as you said.

[Achernar]

Don't you think that the best approach would be to correct the link in the CMS?
You should be able to link to different domains.

[wilderness]

Jim

Your a star Jim, many thanks.

Unfortuantely your spread thinner than peanut butter!
Are you in the clone bank ;)

Don

[chronos]

Achernar -
I was working on that, but at the same time, it can still be accessed by manually typing that URL in, which is what I want to prevent.

[jdMorgan]

I tlooks to me like you actually need two rules:

# Redirect direct client requests for /addondomain to www.addondomain.com/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /addondomain
RewriteRule ^addondomain http://www.addondomain.com/ [R=301,L]
#
# Redirect to canonicalize addondomain.maindomain.com and
# www.addondomain.maindomain.com to www.addondomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?addondomain\.maindomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.addondomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Jim