.htaccess redirect all pages except the home page

Question

I have just merged two websites. Site A is now merged with site B.

Site A has got a .htaccess file which redirects all of the content to the new domain where site B is hosted.

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.siteb.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It is working perfectly, however, I need the homepage of site A not to redirect.

What do I need to add to the code above to make that happen?

What are the URL variations of the homepage, as in `/` or `/index.html` or `/index.php`? We need to know all of them to prevent them from applying in the more general rule. — Michael Berkowski, Jul 26 '16 at 15:53

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '16 at 15:53

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Just change .* to .+ to make sure your regex pattern isn't matcinng landing page:

RewriteRule (.+) http://www.siteb.com/$1 [R=301,L,NE]

answered Jul 26 '16 at 15:53

anubhava

This will need more work if the landing page is ever to be something like `index.html`. – Michael Berkowski Jul 26 '16 at 15:54
`mod_rewrite` module actually runs before `mod_dir` module thereby `DirectoryIndex` will add `index.html` etc after rewrite rules have run. – anubhava Jul 26 '16 at 15:59

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