Redirecting whole website

Question

So I redirect my old website to a new one using this redirect rule which I found here.

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/ [L,R]

The problem is when users enter a page on the old site like www.oldsite.com/something.html it jumps to www.newsite.com/something.html. What I need is that all pages no matter what, redirect to http://www.newsite.com/. Any ideas on how I can do this?

Answer 1

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/ [L,R]

is what you want. The effect you're describing is

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$1 [L,R]

which is not the same thing. If you're editing the configuration through some editor or website, it might be "interpreting" what it thinks you want instead of what you have entered.

Answer 2

RewriteRule ^/.*$ http://www.newsite.com/? [L,R]

The "?" will kill any other query string.

Answer 3

Umm off the top of my head try something like this..

Edit the vhost and use

Redirect permanent / http://www.newsite.com/

whereby your just redirecting the whole "oldsite" to the "newsite"

The idea is just redirect the base of oldsite.com to newsite.com before anything else right??

This might also work

RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.newsite.com [R=permanent,L]