Will this redirect work in the httpd.conf

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Will this redirect work [a-z]* to example.com

ie., I want to redirect anything to example.com

Thanks Jean

joschi · Answer 1 · 2010-11-01 07:16:35Z

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Putting RedirectPermanent / http://example.com/ in your Apache httpd configuration should do the trick.

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Andrew M. · Answer 2 · 2010-11-01 07:29:30Z

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If you want to redirect anything to example.com, what you probably want is something like this:

RewriteRule ^[a-z]*$ http://www.example.com [R,L]

This will redirect ANY request made to the any part of your URL to http://www.example.com. I.e.,

http://mysite.com => http://www.example.com
http://mysite.com/asdasd => http://www.example.com
http://mysite.com/another/test => (not forwarded)

answered Nov 1 '10 at 7:13

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	and if I want to redirect example.net to example.com, do I write something like this---------------------------><VirtualHost :80> ServerName y.com ServerAlias .y.com Redirect permanent / x.com </VirtualHost> – Jean Nov 1 '10 at 7:23
	I may have misunderstood your question. I thought you were only trying to forward requests that matched a pattern. If you just want to have the entire domain forwarded, joschi's answer is the better one. – Andrew M. Nov 1 '10 at 7:26
	my question stands as it is. But I got confused with the adding of virtual host in the httpd.conf and the rewriterule. I want to add it to the httpd.conf than to the www directory – Jean Nov 1 '10 at 7:37
	In the case of `RewriteRule`, you can add it inside or outside a `VirtualHost` directive. Adding it to the `VirtualHost` will only rewrite for requests matching that host. – Andrew M. Nov 1 '10 at 7:46

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