Question

i have two websites,

both websites contains few pages, and wordpress blog, please following structure

www.firstwebsite.com
-Root
  -index.html
  -about.html
  -Blog
    -blog page1
    -blog page2

www.secondwebsite.com
-Root
  -index.html
  -about.html
  -Blog
    -blog page1
    -blog page2

now, I want to redirect all the blog pages (i.e. pages under blog folder) of http://www.firstwebsite.com to the http://www.secondwebsite.com/blog, using htaccess 301 redirect.

I know i can redirect like

Redirect 301 /a.html www.secondwebsite.com/blog
Redirect 302 /b.html www.secondwebsite.com/blog

but if there any simple way, so i can redirect all pages by writing just line in .htaccess file, as destination for all the pages is same

Answer 1

Use a RewriteRule for this

RewriteEngine On
# If the hostname for this request matches www.firstwebsite.com...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.firstwebsite\.com$ [NC]
# Redirect all requests in Blog/ to the equivalent on www.secondwebsite.com
RewriteRule Blog/(.*) http://www.secondwebsite.com/Blog/$1 [L,R=301,QSA]

RewriteCond is a conditional match on the request’s hostname. So above, we’re only applying the rewrite to requests matching www.firstwebsite.com. The [NC] on the end makes it a case-insensitive match.

The RewriteRule uses the expression Blog/(.*) to match all requests to the Blog directory, capturing everything after / in a match group. The request is then rewritten into www.secondwebsite.com/Blog using the match from the request (.*) as $1, so the whole request comes out identically in www.secondwebsite.com.