How to htaccess redirect parked domains?

[crunch42]

Anyone know what I'd write in an .htaccess file in order to redirect requests for two parked domains, abc.com and xyz.com to 123.com, which is the "real" site?

Thanks,
Julian

[james]

Redirect / [url]http://www.123.com[/url]

Put that in the root folder of abc.com and xyz.com.

James

[crunch42]

I used php

Thanks. I actually used php to do what I wanted:

if (substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,7)=="www.abc") { header("Location: http://www.123.com"); } 

I put this in an include file that was included in all pages. The parked domains had no search engine references so I figured it was safe to do it this way instead of with some kind of 301 redirect.

- Julian

[james]

Julian,

What about if someone visits your site without the www.?

ie just http://abc.com.

Your php code above will not redirect in this case, correct?

James

[crunch42]

Yep

That's true. I always forget about that eventuality. The following code works:

if (substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,7)=="www.abc") { header("Location: http://www.123.com"); } 
if (substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,3)=="abc") { header("Location: http://www.123.com"); } 

[james]

I would use this instead:

if (substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,7) == "www.abc" || substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,3)=="abc") { 
    header("Location: http://www.123.com"); 
} 

It does the same, just with slighly different logic (the || means OR)

James

[felipe808]

C panel Redirect Button

I just noticed the Redirect page in Cpanel and installed some redirects for some old pages coming up in the "error" pages report.
Question: can you use this redirect button with subdirectories that are old and wildcard files to eliminate doing each file?
In other words, if i'm getting requests for "mainpage/products/thing1.html"
could you redirect "mainpage/products/*.html" to redirect thing1 and 2...n?
Also: why is there a "temp" and "permanent" option on the redirect page?

[sdjl]

You could try doing the wildcards through the cPanel utility, although i'm not too sure how it will respond to them.
I wrote mine by hand.

Apache serves out temporary or permanently removed status codes to your browser. So if your browser sees a permanently removed status code, it will remember that for next time the user goes to the page. The temporary code means the old URL will mostly likely be back.

David

[felipe808]

Thanks...& WILD CARDS don't work

they don't seem to work so it's one at a time. Thanks for the info.

[sdjl]

You can manually write a wildcard redirect. This may work for you.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^directory/this/(.*)\.html$ newpage.php?type=$1

David