Sometimes you may need to redirect domain pages without changing URL in Apache web server. Here’s how to redirect and keep original URL using .htaccess. You can use it to redirect domain or page without changing URL.
How to Redirect and Keep Original URL using htaccess
Here are the steps to redirect and keep original URL using htaccess. Before proceeding further, make sure you have setup mod_rewrite and mod_proxy in Apache. Here are the steps to
Let’s say you want to redirect all pages from your old domain www.example.com to new domain www.example2.com without changing URL
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1. Open .htaccess file
Open Apache web server’s .htaccess file in a text editor. You can modify the following file location as per your server configuration.
$ sudo vi /var/www/html/.htaccess
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2. Redirect Domain without changing URL
Add the following lines in DOCUMENT_ROOT directory
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example1.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,P]
Let us look at the above lines.
The first line allows you to use Symbolic links, while second line enables mod_rewrite if it is not enabled already.
RewriteBase allows you to define the base URL for rewrites. RewriteCond checks incoming requests’ HTTP_HOST value to match with your old domain www.example.com
RewriteRule redirects those requests to their new domain www.example1.com. However, since we use P flag in RewriteRule, Apache will handle it as a proxy request and not change URL.
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3. Restart Apache Server
Restart Apache web server
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now your Apache web server will automatically redirect domain pages without changing URL.
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