Help writing a .htacess file with the correct 301 redirects

[chriistaylor]

Hello

I need help writing a .htaccess file that will do two things.

URL match abc.com and www.abc.com to www.newabc.com

except one subdomain was also changed www.abc.com/blog is now  www.newabc.com/newblog

everything after blog matches.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks

[mememax]

yes ALeyda answer was more concrete for sure Glad to have been of help however

[chriistaylor]

Aleyda and Mememax

Thanks very much for the help. Aleyda your answer worked perfectly.

Thanks again!

Chris

[Aleyda]

Hi Chris,

To redirect your old domain to the new domain with the same path for all the URLs except a specific directory, for example: /blog/ that is going to be renamed /newblog/ in your new domain, it will be:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On</ifmodule>

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog/(.) [NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.)$ http://www.newabc.com/newblog/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.abc.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newabc.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks,

Aleyda

[mememax]

The normal rule to achieve this is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newabc.com/$1 [R=301,L]

For the blog issue you may consider adding an htaccess file in the blog folder and put

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc.com
RewriteRule ^blog(.*) http://www.newabc.com/newblog$1 [R=301,L]

or maybe you can achieve that by adding the line:

RewriteRule ^blog(.*) http://www.newabc.com/newblog$1 [R=301,L]

However in this second case you'll have a double redirect: the first which redirect blog to new blog and then the non www to www.