Posted: 17 June 2010 at 1:04pm | IP Logged

Hi, I need some help with constructing RewriteRule regular expression, here is my problem:

 I have a site hosted as http://www.mysite.com  and any incoming requests to this URL must redirect
 to a new site http://www.mynewsite.com.  However if the incoming request has path or query attached
 to it rewrite should not happen, here are few examples:
 
   http://www.mysite.com   redirects to>>   http://www.mynewsite.com
   https://www.mysite.com  redirects to>>   https://www.mynewsite.com
   http://www.mysite.com/  redirects to>>   http://www.mynewsite.com
   http://www.mysite.com/# redirects to>>   http://www.mynewsite.com
  
   http://www.mysite.com/?    should not redirect
   http://www.mysite.com/directory  should not redirect
   http://www.mysite.com/?param     should not redirect
  
 to make this work I have tried rewrite statement:
 
   RewriteRule (http|https)://www.mysite.com(/|/#)? http\://www.mynewsite.com [I,R]
  
 this does not work, what am I doing wrong? On the Regular Expression Test Utility this seems to be working.

Posted: 22 June 2010 at 12:33pm | IP Logged

Thank you Anton, it works.

I ended up omitting the HTTPS server variable check portion.