Rewrite instead of Redirect

daygo140 · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 3

I have three domains. Problem is I got dellarte.us first and would like the other two dellarte.net and dellartepc.com to redirect to dellarte.us I want them all to display dellartepc.com.

How?

All help is greatly appreciated!

dcz · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: Re: Rewrite instead of Redirect

And welcome Very Happy

This is easily doable thanks to the www prefix redirection, method number 2.

The principle will be to have all the domains you want linked where dellarte.us is already installed, so that all of them are in the end linked to same site.

Then, if I understand well, you'd like all these to be redirected to the .com, to do this, the following rewriterule should do it :

daygo140 · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 3

Ok I want the www to show with dellartepc.com > www.dellartepc.com , in the address bar for all below.

Here's my layout...

My Root is:

dellarte.us (all the files located here)

Then I have add-on's:

dellartepc.com (empty with a redirect to dellarte.us)
dellarte.net (empty with a redirect to dellarte.us)

In which htaccess' do I put the:

dcz · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: Re: Rewrite instead of Redirect

Actually, if all these are linked to a separate host, you have to implement the code you mentioned in all of them.

The most obvious setting would be to set dellartepc.com and dellarte.net's dns to be linked to dellarte.us host, and to install them on the dellarte.us's host.

It's usually cheaper as well as you do not need to rent storage for the unused domains, but you can as well install the rewriterule in all of them, the result will be the same.

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daygo140 · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 3

They are all the same host AND same account. The main is dellarte.us and the add-ons are dellartepc.com and dellarte.net.

I AM A BIG n00b (rookie). So all this rewrite stuff is like a foreign language. Can you give me step by step instructions for each domain? I fooled around a bit and was unsuccessful.

The main thing I am trying to do is get www.dellartepc.com in the address bar for all of these domains. The actual files for dellarte.us is stored at dellarte.us's root. dellartepc.com and dellarte.net are both empty with the exception of an index.html file redirecting to dellarte.us.

dcz · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: Re: Rewrite instead of Redirect

Well, I told you all already.

The best is to install all the domains where delarte.us is installed, the same folder, not only the same server. And this mostly depends on your hosting, they must provide some documentation about how to do this.

And to implement the rewriterule I suggested. I cannot check as none is online or accessible at the moment.

In case you want to keep a separate folder for each's root, you'll have to use the same exact set of rewriterule in all the domain's root folder.

This requires to be hosted on Apache running mod_rewrite.

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