htaccess domain redirect to newdomain

Question

I have the domain www.oldsite.com and i set a redirect to forward to www.newsite.com/new

but when i google search old site all of its sub links go to www.newsite.com/new/sublink

How do i edit the htaccess file so that the sub links never pass though

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite\.com*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.oldsite\.com*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.newsite\.com\/new" [R=301,L]

In short all links involved in oldsite.com should redirect to newsite.com/new

I read the below but it didnt seem to help to much. htaccess: domain hosted on subdirectory

Answer 1

The below .htaccess should be place on the root folder of the old domain only:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?oldsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.newsite.com/new [R=301,L]

It will redirect anything from the old domain to the new one, for example:

http://oldsite.com/someurl

Will go to:

http://www.newsite.com/new

No URLs from the old site will be passed down to the new site, they will all be sent to /new .

NOTE: make sure you do not have any additional .htaccess files in other folders of the old domain as those will set null the previous rules.

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If you want to send only the main domain to the new one without any URLs within:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?oldsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://www.newsite.com/new [R=301,L]

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A different way would be to handle all the URLs on the new site, which would be like the below .htaccess :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?oldsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.newsite.com/new%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

It will redirect anything from the old domain to the new one, for example:

http://oldsite.com/someurl

Will go to:

http://www.newsite.com/new/someurl

If you do not wish the new to show up simple remove /new from the rule above.