Hi folks.

Sorry to trouble you all with something that seems even to me to be rather simple, but I've spent two days and still can't get it to work properly.

I have three slightly-different domain names that all point to the same web directory via virtual hosts.

What I want to do is have two of the three "turn into" the first one, and I think I can do that using mod_rewrite, if I'm not mistaken.

I've read the Apache docs, searched the web, searched through these forums, and still cannot get this to work.

Here's what I want to do:

I want xxxxx.org and www.xxxxx.org to always turn into www.yyyyy.org.

So here's what I added to httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^xxxxx\.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^/.* http://www.yyyyy.org%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

I've tried it with and without the ! on the second line, because I've seen it both ways. I've tried ^(.*)$ instead of ^/.* on the third line, because I've seen it both ways. I've also had /$1 instead of %{REQUEST_URI} because I've seen that differently as well.

I've tried commenting out the virtual host entry for xxxxx.org, but that didn't help.

Surely I'm making a simple mistake....

I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Did you check the logs in /var/log/apache? Those are very verbose and tell you exaclty what is going wrong with your rewrite. If I am not mistaken, there is a setting in the httpd.conf which can even increase the verbosity for rewriting.

jlinkels