Assuming I have three domains: domain1.tld, domain2.tld and domain3.tld
All request should redirect to newdomain.tld/new except for the root of domain1.tld.
But unfortunately my exception is not working:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1\.tld$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain1\.tld$
RewriteRule ^/$ https://newdomain.tld/new [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain1\.tld$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain1\.tld$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://newdomain.tld/new [R=301,L]
>Solution :
Your first rule would seem to perform the specific redirect you are trying to prevent, if it wasn’t for the RewriteRule pattern ^/$, which will never match, so the first rule doesn’t actually do anything.
The second rule doesn’t redirect any requests to domain1.tld, so again, domain1.tld/ is not redirected by the second rule either.
Make sure you are not seeing a cached response. 301 (permanent) redirects are cached persistently by the browser, so always test with a 302 first to avoid potential caching issues.
A couple of additional assumptions:
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newdomain.tldpoints to a different server. -
You do not need to serve any static resources (CSS, JS, images, etc) from the page at
domain1.tld/– since these will be redirected tonewdomain.tld. The exception is literally only for requests to the document root.
Try it like this instead:
RewriteEngine On
# Exception for "domain1.tld/"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain1\.tld [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ - [L]
# Everything else redirects to "newdomain.tld/new"
RewriteRule ^ https://newdomain.tld/new [QSD,R=301,L]
Note that the RewriteRule pattern (first argument) matches against the URL-path, less the slash prefix. ie. ^$ (an empty URL-path) matches the root. (You would only use ^/$ in a server context.)
NB: You will need to clear your browser cache before testing and test with a 302 first.