How to do this 301 redirection

[juanmiguelcr]

Hi there! I have two domains with the same content. Some guys in this forum posted that It would be convinient to do a 301 redirect from one ".com" domain to ".es" domain (my potential market). I just tried to set it up in the htaccess file but it dind't worked at all.

Something like:

redirect 301 http://wwww.domain.com http://www.domain.es

I just configure in the webmaster tools the domain www.domain.com as preferred domain insted of http://domain.comThe same with the other domain.

Any help?

many thanks

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Try this

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[AndieF]

Hey Juan,

On the old domain have this in your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.domain.es/$1

Then you may want a separate HTACCESS rule to forward all traffic without www. to use it

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

I hope that helps, but I have a feeling I may have missed the point of the question. Let me know if I did.

• Andie