Question

I need to change the domain for both a wordpress and a number of hand-coded pages.

Is there a way to write something in .htaccess so that http://www.olddomain.com/* goes to the corresponding http://www.newdomain.com/* for everything?

Answer 1

You’ll want to use a proper 301 redirect so that search engines will know to start indexing the new domain… something like this should worK if applied before the rest of the rules:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^olddomain.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]