By riserjordan
I’m trying to forward one domain that leads to my DO droplet to another domain that also leads to the same droplet. I’ve done this in the past with a simple 301 redirect in an .htaccess file. But after adding this it still isn’t forwarding.
I’ve added the .htaccess file in the /var/www/html folder, should I try adding this further up the dir structure? Or is there a better or more suitable option to doing this?
The end result should take domain-one.com and forward it to domain-two.com instead.
I am running a ubuntu with lamp droplet by the way.
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Make sure that you have AllowOverride All in your main Apache configuration for virtual hosts. If you don’t then it completely ignores .htaccess files.
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