regex .htaccess

Question

I want to redirect a domain newspaper.com and newspapereds.com to news.com. The rewrite I am using is

RewriteRule [paper] http://www.news.com. The problem is it does not redirect.

Thanks Jean

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-27 10:00:40Z

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RewriteRule will only try to match the pattern agains the URL path but not the host part. You need to use RewriteCond instead:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} paper
RewriteRule ^ http://www.news.com

Besides that, [paper] is a character class and matches only one occurrence of the containing characters p, a, e, and r.

answered Mar 27, 2011 at 10:00

Gumbo

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3 Comments

Can I write it as RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (paper|news)?

@Jean: Yes, that would match host names containing either “paper” or “news”.

@Jean: (paper|news) does match either “paper” or “news”.