Redirect only root domain no subpages

Question

I have tried some several possibilities to redirect only my root domain but unfortunatly i cant get it to work. These are the options that i have tried.

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

Also tried this one:

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

Both codes redirect all my subpages for example: http://website.com/contact.html

Can anyone advise me what i might be doing wrong or missing anything.

Greets, Roy

Answer 1

try this :

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

this will only redirect oldsite.com to newsite.com and not do anything for oldsite.com/abc

Answer 2

No need to use mod_redirect, you can just use

RedirectMatch "^/?$" " http://newsite.com "

in a VirtualHost for oldsite.com