Now that I look at this again after learning a bit I wonder if the .htaccess file in the olddomain root isn't quite right.
I had it as this:
Code:
ErrorDocument 401 default
ErrorDocument 403 default
ErrorDocument 404 default
ErrorDocument 500 default
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
#redirect all but root and index to newdomain
RewriteRule ^$ - [S=2]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [S=1]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#note: I changed the above line to https and I run SSL
#redirect http to https
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R,L]
#make exception for XF's thread URL format
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\.]+\.[0-9]+/ - [S=1]
#redirect vB's thread URL format
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)-.*$ /threads/$1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(data/|js/|styles/|install/|favicon\.ico|crossdomain\.xml|robots\.txt) - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>
But something doesn't make sense. All that is going to be in the olddomain, at first, is an index.html file (eventually, a Magento cart) but doesn't that mean that
RewriteRule ^index\.
php$ - [S=1]
should be
RewriteRule ^index\.
html$ - [S=1]?
Then, if the point is to not redirect the root and index.html hits to the new domain, the first 2 rules would take care of these conditions and skip the third line. From that point on, the next line would, as written, redirect
http://www.olddomain.com to
https://www.newdomain.com, would it not? So I don't want that, I want olddomain there (and I will have SSL on the old domain, so I would want to redirect http to https)
So if I follow the logic here, the only hits that will not be redirected will be root and index.html, and if the hit was to http it would be redirected to https. Everything else would go to the new domain. There are no other possibilities, so I shouldn't need the rest of the file, should I? This means that the olddomain .htaccess file would just be:
Code:
ErrorDocument 401 default
ErrorDocument 403 default
ErrorDocument 404 default
ErrorDocument 500 default
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
#redirect all but root and index to newdomain
RewriteRule ^$ - [S=2]
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [S=1]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#redirect http to https
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.olddomain.com/$1 [R,L]
</IfModule>
Correct?
And then of course I have thought of one other potential issue, related to SSL on the new domain. Will is cause any issues to have https in the 3rd rule instead of http like you first recommended? If my .htaccess file in the root of the new domain has the http->https rewrite rule, will that take care of it, or can I leave the olddomain .htaccess file as I show it?
