.htaccess redirect all pages to new domain

Question

Which redirect rule would I use to redirect all pages under olddomain.example to be redirected to newdomain.example?

The site has a totally

Answer 1

If the new domain you are redirecting your old site to is on a diffrent host, you can simply use a Redirect

Redirect 301 / http://newdomain.com

This will redirect all requests from olddomain to the newdomain .

Redirect directive will not work or may cause a Redirect loop if your newdomain and olddomain both are on same host, in that case you'll need to use mod-rewrite to redirect based on the requested host header.

RewriteEngine on


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?olddomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^ http://newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,L,R]