Combining www removal and domain redirect

.htaccess bad practice to do it this way?

[limbo]

Hi

Spot the code hack... I'm using the .htaccess commands below to forward users from the one domain to another regardless of whether they use the www:

#-----------------------------------------

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.onedomain\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:// www.anotherdomain.com/$1?%1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^onedomain.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http:// www.onedomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

#----------------------------------------- (delinkled)

Am I OK combining them in this way or is there a slimmer method? this way seems a bit loopy

Cheers, Limbo.

[jdMorgan]

1) What is the query string manipulation intended to do?
2) Do you want to redirect "anotherdomain.com" to www.anotherdomain.com? - Your current code doesn't do that.

Jim

[limbo]

jd

The first line forwards people from www.onedoamin.co.uk to www.anotherdomain.com

The second command catches people who type the domain without the www and then the first command kicks in again and send them to the correct address - the code works, I've tried it... but is there a cleaner way?

[jdMorgan]

Please answer those two questions directly... I cannot answer your questions correctly without knowing the answer to those. Once again:

1) Why are you testing the query string in the first rule?
2) Do you want to redirect "anotherdomain.com" to "www.anotherdomain.com", or to leave it alone?

Jim