Old HTTPS domain needs to direct to new domain

Question

So, my client changed their old domain to a new domain which had an SSL cert on it. The old domain is indexed as https://olddomain.com and even though I changed the forwarding in Godaddy to go to the new domain it will not load! I'm trying to redirect with a htaccess file but I have not had any success. So, https://olddomain.com does not redirect but if you type in olddomain.com it redirects.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the https://olddomain.com to redirect? FYI: I do not have hosting setup for the old domain.

My htaccess file is just this:

 RewriteEngine On 
 RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

 RewriteCond %{HTTPS_HOST} \olddomain.com$
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$  https://www.newdomain.com$1 [R=301,L]

anubhava · Answer 1 · 2013-11-19T17:48:43.173

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Your 2 rules can be combined into one and \olddomain.com$ is incorrect regex because of \o

Try this rule:

 RewriteEngine On 

 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} olddomain\.com$ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
 RewriteRule ^ https://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]

edited Nov 19 '13 at 17:48

answered Nov 19 '13 at 17:31

anubhava

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Thank you both but the old https:// olddaomin.com is still not redirecting. It's just getting "This webpage is not available." – Dede Nov 19 '13 at 17:41
Is `olddaomin.com` still a valid address? Can you ping it? I also corrected my typo so try edited answer. – anubhava Nov 19 '13 at 17:48

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

There is no such thing as HTTPS_HOST, see RewriteCond for a list of available variables.

You have HTTP_HOST or HTTPS available. If you want to redirect to https://newdomain.com, you can just check for olddomain.com

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} olddomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  https://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

Don't forget the slash, because in a .htaccess context, the leading slash is removed. Otherwise, http://olddomain.com/page.html would be redirected to https://www.newdomain.compage.html. Not exactky what you would expect.

Never test with 301 enabled, see this answer Tips for debugging .htaccess rewrite rules for details.

Old HTTPS domain needs to direct to new domain

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