htaccess rewrite all URLs

[Maljonic]

Does anyone know if it's possible to rewrite the domain name of all the URLs on a website?

I mean if you move your site to a different address but all the pages keep the same name so you want each page to redirect to it's counterpart at the new address using .htaccess at the old address.

Usually I've just done a seperate redirect for each page, but it occured to me that there MUST be a way to do it with one or two lines instead of 30, 40 or 300 etc when the only thing that's changing is the domain name.

 

[Maljonic]

Oh wait, I found this after searching a bit:

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

It can't be that simple can it?

 

[Deebs]

Oh wait, I found this after searching a bit:

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

It can't be that simple can it?

Not quite, you need to put some other variables in place.

All that does is redirect to that one page, overriding what the user had put in the browser window.

Check out this link mod_rewrite, a beginner's guide (with examples)

 

[Maljonic]

Thanks, that's great.

 

[Maljonic]

Anyway I just tried the example I posted and it does work after all. For instance I've moved felinefights.com to catclash.com and put only this in the.htaccess of felinefights.com

RewriteEngine on

Redirect 301 /  http://www.catclash.com/

and it seems to work: Cat Clash - Where the World's Foremost Felines Come to Do Battle

edit: gah, it put the link text in for me and I can't change it, but if you look in the status bar you can see the url:

felinefights.com/faq.php

 

[GReaper]

Really varies on the setup.

If the old domain is served under a different directory then a Redirect statement will work perfectly. However if you've got two sites using the same directory then you have to use mod_rewrite.