Simple apache2 redirect from one domain to another
What I want to do is the following:
My domain xy.example.com no longer exists. Thus I want to do a simple redirect to the new domain abc.example.com. It should be a redirect, that also works when someone types in the browser bar http://xy.example.com/team.php - than it shoul redirect to http://abc.example.com/team.php
I've already tried a few things, but it didn't really work. What do I have to put in the Apache 2 config?
You can use the RedirectPermanent directive to redirect the client to your new URL.
Just create a very simple VirtualHost for the old domain in which you redirect it to the new domain:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName xy.example.com
RedirectPermanent / http://abc.example.com/
# optionally add an AccessLog directive for
# logging the requests and do some statistics
</VirtualHost>
Create or edit a .htaccess
inside your DocumentRoot
. Add
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://abc.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Additionally I would change the ServerName
directive to the new domain and leave a ServerAlias
with the old domain.
ServerName abc.example.com
ServerAlias xy.example.com