Domain redirect / htaccess question

[baldidiot]

We're currently in the process of taking a bunch of old mini sites and combining into one larger site, but having issues with the 301 redirect on one of them.

This is what we're using, which has worked fine in the past on other sites, but for some reason on this particular site it's only redirecting the home page - sub pages are going to the old site.

Anyone spot an error we're missing?

RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.casinobonusesonline\.org.uk)?$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ukbettingsites.org.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Should be redirecting casinobonusesonline.org.uk to ukbettingsites.org.uk, which it does for the home page, but all sub pages stay on the old domain so guessing there's a syntax error or something? Htaccess isn't my strong suit...

[Progger]

im 99% sure u can config a redirect on your "host-panel"

or...

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ukbettingsites.org.uk%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

[baldidiot]

im 99% sure u can config a redirect on your "host-panel"

Tried that first, didn't work. Only did the home page (which makes me wonder if it's something else on site causing it).

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ukbettingsites.org.uk%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Nope

[baldidiot]

Well... I'm not sure what I did but it's working now, so problem solved (just don't ask me how I did it as I have no clue).

[Former Member 14]

My server was upgrade from Apache 2.2 to 2.4, while the upgrade adds New Features, it can have a negative impact on previous htaccess syntax. It's supposed to be backward compatible (least I believe so).

But in some instances such as, Deny From All, Allow From xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, it no longer works for me. Instead, I've had to impliment the new 2.4 syntax: Reqiured IP xxx.xxx.xxx

Pain in the ass frankly. Especially as it seems some old syntax's are working, while others are not.

[universal4]

Glad it is working now baldidiot.

To be sure any time you are attempting htaccess changes, be sure to keep changing browsers to make your tests as the cache (both browser or web server cache) can affect changes to not be seen immediately. (sounds a little bit like this might have been the case)

As an example if you are testing in Firefox, see it doesn't do what you want, make the change you want to try and then for the next test open a fresh "different" browser session IE/Chrome/Opera/etc since it should force a fresh page from the server and rule out it possibly being affected by the cache.

Rick
Universal4

[baldidiot]

Ah, could be. I did try on my phone as well but I may have been on it previously.

Weird thing is that the home page did change immediately as soon as I added or removed the redirect code (I took it off to test), unless it doesn't cache the home page or something? Htaccess is something I've never really properly gotten my head around.

At the same time though I did try a bunch of different things and different peoples code (everyone seems to do it a different way). I then ended up coming back to the one that had worked for me in the past (the one I included in my first post) and it suddenly started working as soon as I did it.

[Progger]

cache,but yes rick was faster

best way are redirect checker like.. http://www.redirect-checker.org/

works like a charm

[universal4]

Thanks progger, that looks pretty handy when you are working on one and a little unsure of the syntax

Rick
Universal4