htaccess redirect all pages to single page

Question

I want to redirect all of my old domain request to my new domain using htaccess file. Below is what I am using but it does not work if the page is not on the new site. For e

Answer 1

This will direct everything from the old host to the root of the new host:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www.old.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^old.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thenewdomain.org/ [R=301,NC,L]

Answer 2

If your aim is to redirect all pages to a single maintenance page (as the title could suggest also this), then use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.php$ 
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^000\.000\.000\.000
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.php [R=302,L] 

Where 000 000 000 000 should be replaced by your ip adress.

Source:

http://www.techiecorner.com/97/redirect-to-maintenance-page-during-upgrade-using-htaccess/

Answer 3

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?olddomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.thenewdomain.com/" [R=301,L]

Answer 4

Add this for pages not currently on your site...

ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/

Along with your Redirect 301 / http://www.thenewdomain.com/ that should cover all the bases...

Good luck!

Answer 5

Are you trying to get visitors to old.com/about.htm to go to new.com/about.htm? If so, you can do this with a mod_rewrite rule in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thenewdomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]