Question

I have two domains for the same website.

I have a single page on my site I want to appear to come from the second domain (in this example it is example2.com/pagex). With exception to root and pagex, all other requests to example2.com should be redirected to example1.com.

All pages on my site appear as directories but are really just index.php?page=pagename due to mod_rewrite rules shown below.

Here is my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example2\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$ #Do not redirect root
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pagex/ #Do not redirect pagex
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301]

# If the file or folder does not exist, send to index.php as variable
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

Running the above code by going to example2.com/pagex/ I get redirected to http://www.example1.com/index.php?page=pagex. The second condition should have failed, preventing the redirect. What is even stranger is the virtual directory has been replaced with the actual path.

Answer 1

You can write your rules like this:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example2\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/pagex/? [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# If the file or folder does not exist, send to index.php as variable
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

With above code http://example2.com/pagex/ gets correctly redirected to http://example2.com/index.php?page=pagex