301 htaccess to redirect broken site links

Alligator Wine

Hi there,
I'm just looking for the correct way to do a 301 redirect through htaccess.

my scenario:

I had a old site, let's call it mydomain.com. And we created a new shop. The new shop can be found at mydomain.com, but we want to direct people to mydomain.ie as default.

There are several pages listed on Google for the old site that are now obsolete. I want to tell Google that these pages are gone and use a 301 to permanently redirect people that try to access these pages to mydomain.ie

The code I've inserted in my htaccess file is:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mydomain.ie%{REQUEST_URI} [r=301,nc,l]


This doesn't seem to work, for example, if I go to mydomain.com/old_file.html, I want this to redirect to mydomain.com, instead it gives me a 404 error as the file doesn't exist anymore.
I've also generated and submitted a new sitemap through google webmaster tools.


thanks

adm

Alligator Wine wrote: »

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mydomain.ie%{REQUEST_URI} [r=301,nc,l]

Try changing that to

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.ie/$1 [L,R=301]

Alligator Wine

at the end of my htaccess file I now have:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.ie/$1 [L,R=301]

doesn't seem to be working though, still gettting 404 errors