6 domains, 1 document root, need all to point to one domain

[charlier]

Hey everyone,

I have been told by many, that mod_rewrite is my solution. Is there any "official" documentation on this?

Perhaps one could help me out real quick and show me the basics of what I'm trying to do.....

Scenario. I have 6 domains. They all point to the same server, and the same document root. I'd like them all to redirect to the root domain of www.domain1.com instead of www.domain2.com or www.domain3.com.

I have messed around with some examples and probably have confused myself over what at all I may have. I keep getting perpetual loops,.... never ending loops is probably a better word.

Can someone give me a quick example of how you'd accomplish this with say at least 2 domains? I think I can figure it out after that.

I'd imagine I need a rule to be something like, if address is anything but www.domain1.com, go to www.domain1.com.

Thanks for any possible help....

Charlie

[richardk]

Apache mod_rewrite Documentation.

Try this

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# If it's not the main domain.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
# Redirect to the document root.
RewriteRule .* http://www.domain.com/? [R=301,L]

[weslinda]

I think this is the same thing that I need to do, but want to confirm. I have three domains that the previous web team setup, and directed them all to the same content. I want to eventually get to using one domain, and I think this is the way to do it.

Can anyone confirm this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[richardk]

To preserve the URL after the domain, eg. domain1.com/abc to maindomain.com/abc, domain2.com/def to maindomain.com/def, you would need this in a .htaccess file in your document root

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]