Website help with MOD_REWRITE code...

[edd_t]

Hello,

 

Our company has decided to change name (how annoying) and want to make sure that the correct name is show in the browser URL.

 

We currently have http://www.bessoholdings.co.uk and http://www.besso.co.uk

 

When someone goes to http://www.bessoholdings.co.uk I need it to show as http://www.besso.co.uk

 

From much google'fu all I have come up with is the following that doesnt work

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.bessoholdings.co.uk$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.besso.co.uk/$1 [R]

 

Anyone help at all?

 

Thanks,

 

Edd...

[mawby]

This is what I use to redirect mkivsupra.net to http://www.mkivsupra.net

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mkivsupra\.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mkivsupra.net/$1 [R=permanent,L]

[SupraShaun]

Take the "!" out of the second line as *I think* at the moment that is saying "if the domain isn't this" then redirect. Alternatively you could leave the "!" in and change the domain to your primary, then anything that isn't your primary domain will redirect to it (this is probably the better way to do it, then you won't have to add a separate condition for each domain you have).

 

I'm on my phone at the moment but will be able to give you the exact code when I get home if you need it

[edd_t]

cheers guys, am still having no luck. took Mawby's and edited it with my URL and the site stopped working, whoops! lol I must have put something in wrong somewhere!

 

so far have tried all of the follwing:

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bessoholdings\.co\.uk$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.besso\.co\.uk" [R]

 

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bessoholdings\.co\.uk$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.besso\.co\.uk" [L]

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bessoholdings.co.uk$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.besso.co.uk/$1 [R]

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.besso.co.uk$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bessoholdings.co.uk/$1 [L]

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bessoholdings\.co\.uk$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.besso\.co\.uk" [L]

 

But still no luck.

[edd_t]

this is also in my .htaccess script, would that make a difference? perhaps the Authname part??

 

order deny,allow

deny from all

allow from all

order deny,allow

deny from all

AuthName bessoholdings.co.uk

AuthUserFile /home/********/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd

AuthGroupFile /home/********/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

[stevie_b]

Would a 301 server-side redirect be more appropriate? Possibly not, just a thought.

 

Have you tried something like this? -->

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule www\.bessoholdings\.co\.uk www.besso.co.uk

 

I don't know the performance effect of using the rule to filter the domain substitution rather than using a RewriteCond. It might not be best practise but I can't see how it wouldn't work. If it works, it'll at least confirm that Apache's rewrite module is compiled in and functional.

 

It shouldn't make any diffference but I noticed mawby's code didn't have a dollar end-of-string marker at the end of the RewriteCond filter, whereas all your attempts in post #4 do. Hence, maybe try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bessoholdings.co.uk
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.besso.co.uk/$1

[SupraShaun]

Try this:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.besso\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.besso.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Also the fact that bessoholdings.co.uk seems to be password protected may not be helping things.

[David P]

Maybe Aunt Besso's cardboard puddings have beaten you to it.

[edd_t]

thanks guys, Stevie_b your 2nd bit of code has worked perfectly

cheers for taking the time to help.

 

Edd..

[stevie_b]

Pleasure.

[edd_t]

lol wierd side affect of all this, we can no longer browse the website from inside our company network! oh my god i hate DNS!!! although it works fine outside!