htaccess redirect to new domain

[ikeizer]

I'm trying to redirect an entire forum subdirectory to a new domain. So /forum should go to newdomain.com/ but /forum/index.php should also be redirected to newdomain.com, as should /forum/viewtopic.php?111 refer to this same base domain.

I can not figure out how to do this correctly. I've checked many threads here, but can't get it to work. Help is appreciated, thanks.

(Please not, using htaccess, modrewrite)

[jdMorgan]

> (Please not, using .htaccess modrewrite)

I'm not sure what that means. Solving this problem may require the use of mod_rewrite, and if you do not have server-config-level privileges, that code will have to go into a .htaccess file.

Please clarify your comment, and post your best-effort code as a basis for discussion.

Thanks,
Jim

[ikeizer]

Hi Jim, sorry incovenient type. Ofcourse using mod_rewrite and htaccess. Dynamic queries should be stripped from these URLs (old ones consist of phpbb3 urls) and as said simply point to the new root URL. Thanks in advance!

[ikeizer]

To elaborate, I'm now using

redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.redirectdomain.com

in the htaccess file. Problem is that this results in redirectdomain.com?dynamic_query

[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:11 am (utc) on Apr 17, 2010]
[edit reason] Defeated auto-linking [/edit]

[g1smd]

Using RewriteRule with [R=301,L] flags will allow you more control over what you want to do.

Redirect and RedirectMatch come from Mod_Alias and are a lot less flexible.

[jdMorgan]

In /forums/.htaccess :

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
#
RewriteRule ^ http://www.redirectdomain.com/? [R=301,L]

Jim

[ikeizer]

That simple, you should have seen my tries :-)

Thanks a lot, appreciate it.