help with htaccess redirect
'Other domain' thoughts.
Since WordPress settings have a single URL, any visitors who arrive on the site using, and retaining, an alternative domain address would appear to change sites (in the address field) as soon as they click an article link. Potentially that's confusing so better, in my view, to change at the start. This would also avoid Google seeing the home page as duplicate content. On that basis any reference to an 'other domain' should be a permanently-moved redirect to the primary URL
I assume the other sites are currently on Homepages; there is no reason why the permanently-moved redirect shouldn't be done from there no need to move them to the ccgi server. This would require an .htacess file in /htdocs on Homepages with contents like
You mentioned the sites currently have pages (file paths) on Homepages - I have assumed these will be meaningless to WordPress so ignored them in the redirect.
If these sites are currently in subdirectories defined in the Domain Control Panel I am unsure if Apache backtracks into /htdocs to look for a .htaccess . If you find the above code is ignored, you could temporarily replace it with the one line .htaccess
browse to one of the sites and see if you *do* get that 500 error page. If not it confirms the file is not being read by Apache. The problem can be fixed by changing control panel settings to point the domains to the /htdocs root.
Hope this makes sense.
David
Since WordPress settings have a single URL, any visitors who arrive on the site using, and retaining, an alternative domain address would appear to change sites (in the address field) as soon as they click an article link. Potentially that's confusing so better, in my view, to change at the start. This would also avoid Google seeing the home page as duplicate content. On that basis any reference to an 'other domain' should be a permanently-moved redirect to the primary URL
I assume the other sites are currently on Homepages; there is no reason why the permanently-moved redirect shouldn't be done from there no need to move them to the ccgi server. This would require an .htacess file in /htdocs on Homepages with contents like
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect other domains to primary one
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2\.co\.uk$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.co.uk [R=301,L]
You mentioned the sites currently have pages (file paths) on Homepages - I have assumed these will be meaningless to WordPress so ignored them in the redirect.
If these sites are currently in subdirectories defined in the Domain Control Panel I am unsure if Apache backtracks into /htdocs to look for a .htaccess . If you find the above code is ignored, you could temporarily replace it with the one line .htaccess
This should give a 500 Internal Server Error
browse to one of the sites and see if you *do* get that 500 error page. If not it confirms the file is not being read by Apache. The problem can be fixed by changing control panel settings to point the domains to the /htdocs root.
Hope this makes sense.
David
Hi, don't want to hijack this thread, but I could do with a bit of help here too ..
I have a wordpress site running quite nicely in my ccgi space, and have been trying to add a second (different) site which I can't seem to get working properly.
The original website is under its own subdirectory (eg public/subdirone/) and accessed using my domain name (eg. domainone.co.uk).
I have set up the .htaccess file in public which (seems) to have been working fine.
Having now added the second (separate) wordpress site in its own subdirectory (public/subdirtwo/), and asked plusnet to point my second domain name to my ccgi space, I have amended the .htaccess in /public to try and redirect the two domains to the relevant directory.
The second redirect doesn't seem to work and just goes to a random (so far untraceable) error page. I'm not sure whether my htaccess is incorrect, the plusnet redirect hasn't worked or something else is amiss.
This is the version of .htaccess I currently have (under /public/):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domainone\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirone/
RewriteRule (.*) /subdirone/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domaintwo\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirtwo/
RewriteRule (.*) /subdirtwo/$1
The domain configuration on my force9 account is identical for the two domains ('a' record for domain name, 'cname' www - ccgi etc) and have waited a few days from switch over (the second domain used to point to my personal force9 account) for dns to propagate.
I have put a basic htm file in the second directory as a test and can access that by using ccgi.username.force9.co.uk/subdirtwo/ - using the domaintwo.co.uk just fails to a wp 'not found' page.
Am stumped as to why second rewrite doesn't seem to work. Is there any way to trace where the url is landing?
Any help appreciated ...
I have a wordpress site running quite nicely in my ccgi space, and have been trying to add a second (different) site which I can't seem to get working properly.
The original website is under its own subdirectory (eg public/subdirone/) and accessed using my domain name (eg. domainone.co.uk).
I have set up the .htaccess file in public which (seems) to have been working fine.
Having now added the second (separate) wordpress site in its own subdirectory (public/subdirtwo/), and asked plusnet to point my second domain name to my ccgi space, I have amended the .htaccess in /public to try and redirect the two domains to the relevant directory.
The second redirect doesn't seem to work and just goes to a random (so far untraceable) error page. I'm not sure whether my htaccess is incorrect, the plusnet redirect hasn't worked or something else is amiss.
This is the version of .htaccess I currently have (under /public/):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domainone\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirone/
RewriteRule (.*) /subdirone/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domaintwo\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirtwo/
RewriteRule (.*) /subdirtwo/$1
The domain configuration on my force9 account is identical for the two domains ('a' record for domain name, 'cname' www - ccgi etc) and have waited a few days from switch over (the second domain used to point to my personal force9 account) for dns to propagate.
I have put a basic htm file in the second directory as a test and can access that by using ccgi.username.force9.co.uk/subdirtwo/ - using the domaintwo.co.uk just fails to a wp 'not found' page.
Am stumped as to why second rewrite doesn't seem to work. Is there any way to trace where the url is landing?
Any help appreciated ...
Thanks Bob (and David) all seems ok now.