I have two domain names setup with sub-domains as follows...
blog.domain.com
www.blog.domain.com
blog.domain.info
www.blog.domain.info
Both domains are pointing to the same location on the same server, a directory containing WordPress. (domain.com/blog)
To keep Google happy, I want everything to redirect to this one domain...
blog.domain.com
Here is what's inside the .htaccess file contained in the WordPress directory...
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
So I went into my cPanel and added a 301 Domain Redirect as follows...
blog.domain.info -> blog.domain.com (with "www" optional and wildcard selected).
cPanel then automatically added the following to the same .htaccess file under the WordPress rewrite rules...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.domain.info$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.blog.domain.info$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/blog\.domain\.com$1" [R=301,L]
The problem is that the wildcard portion does not seem to work.
When I go to blog.domain.info, I get redirected to blog.domain.com as expected.
But when I go to blog.domain.info/my-post, I do not get redirected at all.
How can I fix this? I've tried rewrite rules that I know work but all I can think of is that the WordPress rules are interfering.
Once it's fixed, can I move these mod-rewrites to the main .htaccess in the hosting account's www root keeping them separate from the WordPress rules? Edit: Answer- NO, they will not work because they are domains parked in directories off the root www.