jaygao

Hi everyone,
I am hoping to find someone who could help me here.

We have two sites, let's say domain1.com and domain2.com. A while back, when the two sites were hosted on different accounts, we redirected some folders from 1 to 2. The way we did it is by adding the following lines into .htaccess (we are on linux server using apache).

For example: redirect http://www.domain1.com/MSP/ Welcome to DOMAIN2.COM

This has worked fine. Since we move the hosting to UH, we hosted the two site in one account by using domain2 as an addon domain. The files are uploaded in a subfolder called domain2. The sites worked fine but the redirections no longer work. It appears to me that the redirections set in the root folder (public_html) .htaccess would also affect on the domain2. I know this because when I tried to set up new redirection lines from page to page (on domain1), I had to add the domain1 root, otherwise it will redirect the same page on domain2.

I hope I have explained the issue as clear as possibly can. Any ideas are welcome, our ranking has dropped since these redirections stopped working.

Thanks in advance.
Best,
Jay

percepts

put both sites in addon domains

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jaygao

But I thought there should always be a site as the main domain? Do you mean I leave the main directory empty, but create 2 subfolders for the two domains? Would there be any other way of fixing this without touching the main domain?
Thanks for your help.

percepts

You will have to have a domain name for the root but it would mean it is useless if you want to use htaccess. But that is what UH have decided to deliver.

Ask support for a solution.

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Vger

When you refer to "add-on" domain are you talking about an alias or a subdomain? They would be treated differently by .htaccess.

If, for instance, Domain 2 was previously a domain with its own hosting but is now an alias of Domain 1 (with no physical existence of its own) then the redirection is only possible if Domain 2 had unique page and/or folder names of its own. If the page names of Domain 2 match those of Domain 1 then the redirect would not work as you wish.

If Domain 2 is now a Subdomain of Domain 1 then the Subdomain does have physical existence of its own - in which case you'd add the Domain 2 name as an alias of Domain 1 and use .htaccess redirects to take people trying to access Domain 2 to the Subdomain.

You can do a lot with .htaccess redirects but it does depend upon your level of knowledge.

Last year we had to roll up 6 or 7 domains into one with redirects from the aliases to folders on the main domain, and 2 of the sites were ASP based sites with dynamic ASP page addresses which had to be redirected to dynamic PHP addresses.

Vger

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