htaccess rewrite question

[Oz.]

Hi

Can somebody help me write htaccess to do the following:

301 redirect:
domain1.com.au
domain2.com.au
domain-3.net.au
(anycombo).com.au
domain1.net.au
domain2.net.au
domain-3.net.au
(anycombo).net.au

to:
someotherdomain.com.au?domain=(as above .com.au/.net.au)


So

http://yadayada.com.au would 301 redirect to
http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=yadayada.com.au

http://www.yadayada.com.au would 301 redirect to
http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=yadayada.com.au

http://DOMAIN-3.NET.AU would 301 redirect to
http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=domain-3.net.au

Thanks much.

 

[FirstPageResults]

try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=%{HTTP_HOST} [R=301,L]

 

[Ashman]

Easy to do it through cPanel if you have access to it.

 

[Oz.]

Thanks FPR that works. Except now I need to strip the subdomain (www . etc) as I only want to pass the domain.
eg:
BOTH http://yadayada.com.au AND http://www.yadayada.com.au would 301 redirect to
http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=yadayada.com.au

 

[FirstPageResults]

Just replace %{HTTP_HOST} with the domain, I only added that for convenience and reusability

I think that's what you mean..

 

[Oz.]

The domain is the variable, so can't be hardcoded so to speak.
eg:

BOTH http://yadayada.com.au AND http://www.yadayada.com.au would 301 redirect to
http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=yadayada.com.au
and
http://www.DOMAIN-3.NET.AU would 301 redirect to
http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=domain-3.net.au

so, your suggestion does the above (BUT I need it to also strip the subdomain away from the variable [domain=%{HTTP_HOST}], eg: www in the above examples):

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.someotherdomain.com.au?domain=%{HTTP_HOST} [R=301,L]

Ideally I need the one rule for many domains, otherwise it will be a pain to replicate on a per domain basis.

Hope that makes sense. Anyway, really appreciate your help! Thanks mate.

 

[johno69]

What if you don't redirect, but park and use the "Current domain" as a variable on the page?

Essentially it's the same thing. I'm assuming you are creating a for sale page and want to know the domain they used to get there and pass that through a form?

I might totally be on the wrong path here. But I have a solution for you if that is what you are trying to do.

 

[Oz.]

but park and use the "Current domain" as a variable on the page?

Hi Johno, thanks, how would you do that? Sounds interesting and may work.

 

[johno69]

File will need to be php. Line 1 put:

<?php $CurrentDomain = str_replace("www.", "", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']); ?>

Then where you want the current domain to be used put the variable:

<?php echo $CurrentDomain; ?>

You can use that to show the domain on the page too, like welcome to < domain >

Also if you want to set a price, or logo etc for each specific domain use:

Our price:
	<?php
	switch ($CurrentDomain) {
			case "domain1.com":
			$DomainPrice = 495;
			break;
			case "domain2.com":
			$DomainPrice = 550;
			break;
			default:
			$DomainPrice = 299;
			break;
				}
	echo  '$' . $DomainPrice;
	?> USD

You can repeat the case -> break part for each domain you want to target.

The default part is the fallback. Should it be a domain not listed then show this.

You can of course edit the USD part.

I use it for a few domains I have all parked together like these, I use this system to change the logo out etc.

See it in action:

Wollongong Painting | Painting in the Wollongong area
Wollongong Electrical | Electrician in the Wollongong area

as well as a few others.

 

[Oz.]

Thanks much Johno, and FPR...got it working beautifully with a combination of both your answers. Really appreciate it guys!

 

[johno69]

You're welcome. Can we see?