Redirect everything to root

[rlopes]

Hello, I am trying to 301 redirect everything from site A to root at site B.

I tried

redirect 301 / http://www.site-b.com/

But if you go to www.site-a.com/subdirectory, it will redirect to www.site-b.com/subdirectory, and I need all to root.

Thanks.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 4:47 pm (utc) on Mar 1, 2010]
[edit reason] de-linked to fix formatting proble and comply with TOS & Charter [/edit]

[rlopes]

The code I tried above ended up changed by the forum script. Here it goes again:

redirect 301 / www.site-b.com

[g1smd]

Paths are reappended when using Redirect. Try using RewriteRule:

RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

It is usually very bad form to redirect all pages of one domain to the root of another domain.

[jdMorgan]

"Bad form" in this case meaning, "Search engines hate this" and visitors may get really annoyed (which is why SEs don't like it.)

Jim