[pgo]

We want to redirect an entire old site to a single URL.

For example:

www.oldsite.com/*

to

www.newsite.com/something/blah.html

However, when I use

Redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/something/blah.html

It'll go to something like: www.oldsite.com/products.html -> http://www.newsite.com/something/blah.htmlproducts.html

How can I drop that "products.html" bit?

[roto]

Try this:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It should catch it all and redirect accordingly. However, your server has to be configured accordingly, so I'm not quite sure if this will help given your error above.

IMO, though, use that other bit above just for redirecting from an old page to a new one.

[pgo]

Gotcha. I'll try your crazy moon language...

EDIT: Awesome. It works. Thanks a mil.

[sjd]

That rule will take whatever you have after the domain name and append it on the end of ht*p://www.newsite.com/. So if you have ht*p://www.theoldsite.com/one/two/three.html it'll redirect you to ht*p://www.thenewsite.com/one/two/three.html

To redirect from any page on the old site to a single page on the new site, use the following:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thenewsite.com/something/blah.html [R=301,L]

[sjd]

Timing!

[pgo]

Better luck next time, bud.

[roto]

Originally Posted by pgo

Gotcha. I'll try your crazy moon language...

Happy to help, m8. I'm glad it worked.