Quick redirect help needed

**DomainMagnate** · 7 April, 2009, 08:14 AM

So I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com. What's the easiest way to do it?

also whats the correct line for non-www to www redirect

**weirdnessme** · 7 April, 2009, 09:03 AM

Place the following HTML redirect code between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your HTML code.

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html">

The above HTML redirect code will redirect your visitors to another web page instantly. The content="0; may be changed to the number of seconds you want the browser to wait before redirecting.

**small** · 7 April, 2009, 09:18 AM

put these lines in your .htaccess

# redirect from old domain to new domain
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# redirect non-www to www
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

**DomainMagnate** · 7 April, 2009, 09:25 AM

small, I just tried this and got a Redirect Loop.

**fast1** · 7 April, 2009, 15:55 PM

what is a Redirect Loop?

**DomainMagnate** · 7 April, 2009, 16:09 PM

apparently it's when you get an error page that says 'Redirect Loop'

**Will.Spencer** · 9 April, 2009, 13:22 PM

A redirect loop is when you redirect one URL to a second URL, which redirects it back to the first URL.

This is what I use for simple domain redirects:

Code:

Redirect 301 /                                http://www.example.com

It seems to be that you should simply be able to put that in a file in the directory where that subdomain used to be served. (Warning: I have not tested this...)

**keynes** · 9 April, 2009, 18:47 PM

Can't you do this in Cpanel? I just re-directed a domain to another domain in Cpanel and it was really easy.
I assume that you can also re-direct a subdomain to a domain in Cpanel, haven't tried it, though.

**sony** · 30 April, 2009, 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by DomainMagnate

apparently it's when you get an error page that says 'Redirect Loop'

Everything is possible to make... Preliminary searches for answers to these questions.
What is a subdomain? What is a directory (the server)? What is the top-level domain? What is the difference between the subdomain and directory ?
If, after the answers and still have the need for redirects ...