Domain change need to update .htaccess for SEO

[dirtymonkey]

Hi Jim, I hope your well.

You kindly helped be a couple of time before with code below:

########## Begin - Rewrite rules to enhance SEO SEF
#
# Externally redirect to canonical hostname, preserving the original
# request's http/https protocol, but excluding xmlrpc requests.
RewriteCond $1 !xmlrpc [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(originaldomain\.org|www\.originaldomain\.org(\.|\.?[0-9]+)$) [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}>s ^(443>(s)|80>s)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http%2://www.originaldomain.org/$1 [R=301,L]
#
########## End - Rewrite rules to enhance SEO SEF 

The website is now changing names and has a new domain name pointing to the same site.

How do I update the code to point all requests for originaldomain to newdomain keeping the www rewrite intact?

Thanks in advance.

[jdMorgan]

What have you tried so far?

Jim

[dirtymonkey]

Hi Jim,

I don't really know what I'm doing... I tried something yesterday which didn't work, tried this today and it seems to be working! ;)

########## Begin - Rewrite rules to enhance SEO SEF
#
# Externally redirect to canonical hostname, preserving the original
# request's http/https protocol, but excluding xmlrpc requests.
RewriteCond $1 !xmlrpc [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(origdomain\.org|www\.origdomain\.org|newdomain\.org|www\.newdomain\.org(\.|\.?[0-9]+)$) [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}>s ^(443>(s)|80>s)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http%2://www.newdomain.org/$1 [R=301,L]
#
########## End - Rewrite rules to enhance SEO SEF

Is this correct? can I optimise?

DM.

[jdMorgan]

Yes, well our purpose here [webmasterworld.com] is to help you learn what you are doing, not to write your code... Any mod_rewrite-code-related question posted in this forum gets the same response that you did if there is no accompanying code to discuss.

That code looks basically OK, but you can shorten it up a bit -- specifically the "origdomain" and "www.origdomain" subpattern in the second RewriteCond:

# Redirect requests for all "origdomain.org" variants, non-www "newdomain.org"
# variants, and any www.newdomain.org variants which have a FQDN indicator and/or
# an appended port number to "www.newdomain.org".
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^((www\.)?origdomain\.org|newdomain\.org|www\.newdomain\.org(\.|\.?[0-9]+)$) [NC,OR]

This makes the "www." optional on the "olddomain" subpattern without requiring an additional in-line 'OR'.

But let me ask this: This rule will not redirect xmlrpc requests for *either* domain. Is that what you want?

Jim

[dirtymonkey]

Hi Jim,

I understand, my fault for not including full info in the first place.
Unfortunately the optimised code does not work for me...

Regarding redirecting xmlrpc requests, If I recall correctly Joomla didn't like URL's inc. www. etc. so happy to exclude it from all rewrites for now.

DM.