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SernOne

04-17-2013 10:14 PM

Forwarding mutlitable domains

I have a bunch of domains .com .co .info, etc. I want them all to point forward to .com when you go to any of them I know this is possible through the .htaccess file but I am having trouble finding documentation on this. Can anyone help me with this is driving me mad lol

thanks

bathory

04-18-2013 01:49 AM

Hi,

You didn't mention your webserver, but you said about .htaccess I guess it's apache.
In this case, assuming that you have the correct dns entries, so each .com, .co, .info resolve to the IP of your apache, all you have to do is to use:

Code:

ServerName www.domain.com

ServerAlias www.domain.co www.domain.info

Regards

SernOne

04-18-2013 02:20 PM

Yes I have done that however i was looking for if someone goes to example.co it will forward to example.com instead.

bathory

04-18-2013 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SernOne (Post 4934238)

Yes I have done that however i was looking for if someone goes to example.co it will forward to example.com instead.

Do you want to change the hostname in the URL, so it becomes example.com?
In this case in addition to the above, you should use mod_rewrite either in .htaccess or in the apache config file:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301]

SernOne

04-18-2013 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory (Post 4934276)

Do you want to change the hostname in the URL, so it becomes example.com?
In this case in addition to the above, you should use mod_rewrite either in .htaccess or in the apache config file:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301]

I tried that but it didn't work what might i be doing wrong here

Code:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301]

When i go to example.info it still doesn't redirect to example.com , so basically to clear up some things I only have some cookie sessions that run off the .com address however instead of rewriting a bunch of new cookie sessions I'd rather just redirect all traffic over the .info .co .net and .org to go to the .com address.

bathory

04-19-2013 02:27 AM

Quote:

I tried that but it didn't work what might i be doing wrong here

if you put the above in a .htaccess file in the docroot, you need to change slightly the rewriterule to:

Code:

RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301]

Also make sure that apache reads .htaccess files (check if the AllowOverride is set to All).

TenTenths

04-19-2013 03:57 AM

You can also achieve this by creating a VirtualHost and doing the redirect directly in apache, this would be "lighter" as because there is no DocumentRoot apache doesn't have to read any files or traverse a path to find .htaccess files.

Example:

Code:

<VirtualHost 188.138.103.171:80>

  ServerName www.10tenths.com

  ServerAlias 10tenths.com



  ServerAlias www.10ths.com

  ServerAlias 10ths.com



  ServerAlias www.motorsport.xxx

  ServerAlias motorsport.xxx



  RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.ten-tenths.com$1

</VirtualHost>

You can also add a logfile directive if you want to find out which of your domains or variations is being used.

SernOne

04-19-2013 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TenTenths (Post 4934616)

Code:

<VirtualHost 188.138.103.171:80>

  ServerName www.10tenths.com

  ServerAlias 10tenths.com



  ServerAlias www.10ths.com

  ServerAlias 10ths.com



  ServerAlias www.motorsport.xxx

  ServerAlias motorsport.xxx



  RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.ten-tenths.com$1

</VirtualHost>

You can also add a logfile directive if you want to find out which of your domains or variations is being used.

Thank kind of works, but i get looping errors
This webpage has a redirect loop
The webpage at http://example.com/ has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
Learn more about this problem.
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

TenTenths

04-19-2013 03:07 PM

Check very carefully that you don't have www.yourdomain.com in the list of ServerAliases

The example I've given does work, I use it (with a lot more domain names) on my production server.

SernOne

04-19-2013 07:16 PM

Here is what i have

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin staff@example.com

    DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html

    ServerName www.example.com

    ServerAlias example.com

    ServerAlias www.example.co

    ServerAlias www.example.info

    ServerAlias www.example.net

    ServerAlias www.example.org

    ServerAlias example.co

    ServerAlias example.info

    ServerAlias example.net

    ServerAlias example.org



    RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.example.com$1

    ErrorLog logs/example-error_log

    CustomLog logs/example-access_log common

</VirtualHost>

TenTenths

04-20-2013 12:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SernOne (Post 4934998)

Here is what i have

The domains you want to redirect and your Redirect match need to be in a different vhost container:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin staff@example.com

    DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html

    ServerName www.example.com

    ServerAlias example.com

    ErrorLog logs/example-error_log

    CustomLog logs/example-access_log common

</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName www.example.co

    ServerAlias www.example.info

    ServerAlias www.example.net

    ServerAlias www.example.org

    ServerAlias example.co

    ServerAlias example.info

    ServerAlias example.net

    ServerAlias example.org



    RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.example.com$1

</VirtualHost>

Having them all in the one vhost container means every request is being re-written, INCLUDING the ones to www.example.com, that's causing your looping.

You could also take ServerAlias example.com out and put it in the redirect container too.

SernOne

04-23-2013 10:59 PM

Perfection thank you for the help worked like a charm!

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