How to 301 redirect an entire domain while preserving the path

Question

I am redirecting one domain to another, but I want to preserve the path in the redirect. So for example, I want to visit www.example.com/services/education/page.html

Answer 1

try adding the following to your .htaccess in the root of your example.com domain

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#for all requests to www.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$
#redirect them to new-example
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.new-example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Answer 2

Your original command uses the mod_alias Apache module, and it would work, though you may want to update it to:

Redirect 301 / http://www.new-example.com/

Removing the exact domain of the current (old) domain means all domains that point to that folder will be sent to the new domain, making that one-line script more robust.

The other answers use the mod_rewrite Apache module. If you have that also installed, that's fine to use, though it's 4+ lines of code compared to one. Additionally, mod_alias is part of the "base" package, so should be on all Apache servers, while mod_rewrite is an optional extension, so some might not have it.

Answer 3

This should do it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !new-example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new-example.com/$1 [L,R=301]