Redirect all urls exactly, just change domain name

Question

I have a website with roughly 1K URLs. The website is moving to a different domain name. The URLs will be the exact same though, otherwise. I'd like to incorporate an htaccess or some kind of rule that does a 301 redirect for all URLs in one fell swoop. It would essentially replace the domain name as a 301 redirect.

Example:

• Current URL: domain.example/blog/post-1.html
• Redirect To: newdomain.example/blog/post-1.html

And that performed as a 301 redirect. How would I do that?

Answer 1

Place this redirect rule in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file of domain.example:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domain\.example$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://newdomain.example%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]

Details:

• Condition RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domain\.example$ matches when host name in request is either www.domain.example or domain.example.
• RewriteRule redirect all the URLs to newdomain.example with the URI exactly same as in the original request.
• R=301 sets HTTP status code to 301 (permanent redirect)
• NE is for no escaping to avoid encoding of special characters (if any) from original requests
• L is for last rule