Question

I’m no .htaccess expert, but I’ve tried a few different things to redirect a domain to no avail.

I’ve got a UK and US domain…some US pages have uk extension, and need to be pointed to the proper UK domain:

www.domain.com/uk needs to be rewritten to www.domain.co.uk/uk

Ex. If someone types in www.domain.com/uk/about it will be rewritten as www.domain.co.uk/uk/about

Edit: Paths with /uk should be rewritten

So www.domain.com/uk and www.domain.co.uk should be rewritten to www.domain.co.uk/uk/

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

The important point is to use a RewriteCondition that works on the HTTP Host header. Simply speaking, if a RewriteCond is placed before a normal RewriteRule then the rule is only used if the the condition matches.

The code excerpt above redirects all requests from the .COM to the .CO.UK domain, so if you only need to redirect certain directory, then you need to adjust the rule accordingly, e.g.:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$
RewriteRule uk(.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/uk$1 [L,R=301]

Edit: I hope that this will work for you according to your edit.

The first rule rewrites http://www.domain.com/uk and http://www.domain.com/uk/anything to http://www.domain.co.uk/uk/anything.

The second rule rewrites http://www.domain.co.uk to http://www.domain.co.uk/uk/.

Edit 2: I changed the rule (modified the last one and added another one) to reflect the demand for rewrites on .co.uk/something. If the path starts with uk/ then it just passes through, otherwise it gets rewritten to uk/something.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule uk($|/.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/uk$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^uk/(.*) - [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/uk/$1 [L,R=301]