: Redirect wordpress site to new domain, using wildcard or not both don't work I just moved a wordpress site to a new domain. All of the URLs are the same on the new domain except for of

@Angela700

This code is what you need in the first lines of an .htaccess file in the old website document root folder (provided the old server runs apache with mod_rewrite module installed):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website1.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website1.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.newwebsite.com/ [R=301,L]


That way, when someone accesses the old domain with or without the www, they will be redirected to the new URL with the rest of the friendly URL added.

If that doesn't work out for you, then you may need to ask the old hosting provider to put the above lines directly in the core apache configuration file (httpd.conf) at the top and restart apache. The dots in the RewriteCond are escaped so that they are taken literally as dots instead of a matching instruction. If you need to add dots in the RewriteCond lines, then use . instead of .

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