The Mod Rewrite Thread - using apache to rewrite urls

[Eric4]

If you park a domain using cPanel, by default the parked_domain is displayed by the browser address bar. If you prefer to display the main_domain, add this to your .htaccess file.

 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?parked_domain\.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main_domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Replace "parked_domain" and "main_domain" with your actual domain names.

Cheers,
Eric4

[trickyBizzness]

Why would someone want to do this? I thought the point of a parked domain was so that you could surf the same site under 2 different domains?

[Matt]

You can also use the parked domain function in cPanel to achieve a similar thing as the original poster mentioned, with a bit less technical work for you that don't want to get your hands as dirty.

On another note, here is one that will allow you to make all requests to your site have "www" in front of it. All sites we host by default can be accessed with and without the www, but some of you would like "www" only style urls.

 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Of course, you need to substitute "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain name.