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Multiple Domains for one website

Posted on January 19, 2015

Hi, I setup my main domain picnic.ly and configured it to be associated with a droplet. Then I setup a second domain picnicly.com and set it up to point to the same ip address. This is all working fine.

What I can’t seem to figure out how to do is for picnicly.com to automatically redirect to picnic.ly. I bought the .com address in case people were confused as to the domain, but the one we want to appear in the browser window is picnic.ly.

Thanks!

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Ryan Quinn

January 19, 2015

You can do this via a rewrite set up on your web server. Assuming that you are using apache you will need to do the following.

1.) In your virtualhost configuration (if you haven’t set this up specifically this would be the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf) change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All for your main web root.

2.) Next, enable the rewrite module with the commands:

a2enmod rewrite;
service apache2 restart;

3.) Finally, create an .htaccess file in your web root with the following content. This will redirect any requests for picnicly.com or www.picnicly.com to picnic.ly:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^picnicly.com$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.picnicly.com$
  RewriteRule (.*)$ http://picnic.ly/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

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