Domain redirection in htaccess not working

Question

I have changed domain on the Magento store, however I need to still keep old domain urls accessible and redirected to new domain urls.

for example. old-domain.com/products should redirect to new-domain.com/products

This is from my current htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

#  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain\.com$ [OR]
#  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.old-domain\.com$
#  RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

as you can see, I tried 2 versions,

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.old-domain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

and

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

But none of them work. Yes, I have disabled caching in Magento and yes, just in any case, I still flush the cache in Magento and I clear cache in browser too.

I dont know if this matters but anyways. Both new and old domains are controlled by godaddy, with its default nameservers, and both domains have @ record pointed to my server IP address.

Please help : )

Note: of course, I have real domains in the htaccess instead of old-domain.com and new-domain.com

Currently any kind of url with old domain, just redirects to homepage of new domain.

Answer 1

Let's try this one:

https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204643270/using-htaccess-rewrite-rules

should be useful. Have you enabled mod_rewrite?

Oh I found reason why it didn't works for You. Please try something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.new-domain.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

EDIT:

here are parameters You can use:

• C (chained with next rule)
• CO=cookie (set specified cookie)
• E=var:value (set environment variable var to value)
• F (forbidden - sends a 403 header to the user)
• G (gone - no longer exists)
• H=handler (set handler)
• L (last - stop processing rules)
• N (next - continue processing rules)
• NC (case insensitive)
• NE (do not escape special URL characters in output)
• NS (ignore this rule if the request is a subrequest)
• P (proxy - i.e., apache should grab the remote content specified in the substitution section and return it)
• PT (pass through - use when processing URLs with additional handlers, e.g., mod_alias)
• R (temporary redirect to new URL)
• R=301 (permanent redirect to new URL)
• QSA (append query string from request to substituted URL)
• S=x (skip next x rules)
• T=mime-type (force specified mime type)