.htaccess redirect infinite loop

[abhainn]

Hi guys,

I'm completely new to apache and trying to 301 redirect a domain to another domain. I used .htaccess with

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It created an infinite redirect loop. Then I tried if I could do it page by page:

redirect 301 /page.html http://www.newdomain.com/page.html


The problem seems to be that www.olddomain.com and www.newdomain.com point to the same directory on the server. Request to old domain redirects to new domain, but then reads the same .htaccess file again and and again... Doh

Could anybody help, is there a way around this?

Thanks a million !

[VIPStephan]

Then try making it

RewriteRule !^new-domain.com$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

or

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

That also gets rid of the www/no-www duplicate content issue.

[abhainn]

Originally Posted by VIPStephan

Then try making it

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

Fantastic. Brilliant. Chuffed.

Thank you so much!