Question

I’m trying to make a redirection based on the domain name of my website.

I have two urls:

• domain-english.com
• domain-french.com

The default language is english so when users type domain-english.com no redirection is needed.
But when users type in domain-french.com, I would like it to go directly to domain-french.com/fr

In my htaccess file I tried different solutions I found on Google.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain-french.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain-french.com

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain-french.com/fr [R=301,L] 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php 


</IfModule>
# END WordPress

This does redirect to the url domain-french.com/fr but I get this error

The page isn’t redirecting properly

EDIT
I also tried this configuration in my .htaccess file but I get a 500 Server Error.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain-french.com
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain-french.com/fr [L]

Any ideas what’s happening?

Thanks

Answer 1

Just contacted my hosting provider, they said that it is prohibited on their server thus explaining why it doesn’t work. Thanks anyway for the help! –