mod_rewrite `Redirect` how?

Question

I have 2 urls say thinkingmonkey.me and thinkingmonkey.com both have ip-address 127.0.0.1 (A.K.A localhost).

I want to redirect any requests to thinkingmonkey.com to thinkingmonkey.me.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    DocumentRoot /mysite
    ServerName thinkingmonkey.me
    ServerAlias www.thinkingmonkey.me
    ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    ServerName thinkingmonkey.com
    DocumentRoot /mysite/happ

    Redirect thinkingmonkey.com  http://thinkingmonkey.me/

  #  Redirect / http://thinkingmonkey.me/ #have even tried this

    ServerAlias www.thinkingmonkey.com
    RewriteEngine on
</VirtualHost>

When I try to access thinkingmonkey.com the url does not get redirected to thinkingmonkey.me. The url in the brower's address bar remains thinkingmonkey.com.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try

Redirect /  http://thinkingmonkey.me/

Note that this will only redirect the home page. To redirect all pages:

RedirectMatch /(.*) http://thinkingmonkey.me/$1

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html

Answer 2

Be sure that you also have NameVirtualHost *:80 specified before your virtual host directives, then try the Redirect / http://thinkingmonkey.me again.