301 htaccess

[eliquid]

somehow, this is more complicated then I thought...

i got this subdomain i want to 301 to my main domain


i.e. sub2.domain.com needs to 301 to domain.com


however, I no longer have the folder/subdomain sub2

lots of answers say " put a htaccess file in sub2 and 301 that way " but i no longer have that folder any more and do not want to make it. Why? because I have several of these folders/subdomains like this no longer on the server and I would not want to recreate all of them just to put one file in them and have them on the server forever just for a redirect.

is there a line of code I can put in the root htaccess to redirect all sub2.domain.com to domain.com for a 301 that actually works.

I cant seem to get anything to work.

 

[nickycakes]

RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://domain.com

 

[eliquid]

doesnt work, i get a Firefox error saying the page redirect will never end.

thanks though for the tip

 

[nickycakes]

it does work, i use it on about 80 sites currently with no problems. just make sure you put it in the top directory of the domain you're trying to redirect from and not the domain you're redirecting to

 

[eliquid]

that might be the problem, I no longer have the subdomain or the folder it created and did put the htaccess code in the root of the main domain, which by the way is where it is redirecting per my first post, thus causing the never ending loop.

 

[nickycakes]

recreate the subdomain then, and put that file in the folder for it.

 

[CodeMonkey]

Should be able to do it without recreating the sub-domain, just use a rewrite...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub2\.domain\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.sub2\.domain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]