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[richrock]

Right, I'm fairly comfortable with redirecting other tld's, typically we'll redirect a .com to .co.uk - easy stuff.

But I'm stuck with someone who bought these : .co, .com and .co.uk

They want the .co.uk to be primary.

I've sorted the .com like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?thedomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.thedomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Which works fine. However, when I do

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?thedomain\.co
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.thedomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

I get an infinite loop error, obviously caused by the .co.uk being included in the RewriteCond rule and then redirecting again....

Any ideas how I can resolve this?

[Christian F.]

Try to add the following at the end of the first line:

(/|$)

That should match the domain only if it is followed by a slash, or the end of the line.

[richrock]

You are a genius - I'll have to make a note of this. We had a run of clients who bought .co domains and now regret it for some reason.... Thanks

[Christian F.]

You're welcome, glad I could help.