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.htaccessmod-rewritehttp-redirecturl-rewriting

Redirect all sites of all domain to new domain without trailing query string

I want to redirect all requests on my old domain to the homepage (root site) of my new domain. I thought it would work with a:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/ [R=301]

(see: .htaccess redirect all pages to new domain) but for a strange reason, when I try for example to access the URL www.olddomain.com/faq/pdf.php?cat=7&id=93&artlang=de I get redirected to www.newdomain.com/?cat=7&id=93&artlang=de. What could be the problem?

In the past I had some problems because this domain is in a subdirectory (as addon-domain) of my new main-domain, but in the .htaccess of the main-domain I've got a:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+\.)*olddomain\.com
RewriteRule .* - [L]

Which disable this kind of errors. Any other ideas? I'm trying this now since hours.

EDIT: I've googled when I got that the problem is the query string.

Solution

  • If you want to redirect to your new domain without path and query string, you must append an empty query string

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* http://newdomain.com/? [R=301,L]