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Bariock
Bariock

Reputation: 61

Redirect 301 example.org to example.com and subpages

I want to make a 301 redirection from example.org to example.com

The issue that I face is that all the pages are in the form of example.org/page-something.html and I want to redirect to example.com/page-something.

I can't figure it out no matter the tries in .htaccess.

My current code is like this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.+)\.html https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The first site is a static website and the second one is WordPress in case it matters.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 224

Answers (1)

Stephen Ostermiller
Stephen Ostermiller

Reputation: 25535

There are several possible things wrong.

First you have to make sure that .htaccess is available and enabled on your example.org site. Put some nonsense into the file temporarily and verify that the server throws a 500 Internal Server error. If you find that .htaccess isn't being used:

  • Check that the server is Apache (as opposed to Nginx or IIS which don't use .htaccess files.)
  • Check that the Apache server configuration has AllowOverride all which is what enables .htaccess.

Your rewrite has a potential problem in it. From within .htaccess the path this is matched does not start with a slash. This is different than rewrite rules used in the main Apache configuration files where the path does start with a slash. To fix this you can make the starting slash optional with a ?. Then the rule should work in either location:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)\.html https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

You could also experiment with using a mod_alias RedirectMatch rule instead:

RedirectMatch "^/?(.*)\.html" "https://example.com/$1"

Upvotes: 2

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