301 redirect whole site to the homepage of another?

Question

I would like to redirect my whole site to the homepage of another site. I know I could do this in JavaScript but I prefer to have the 301 Redirect for SEO reasons. How could I do this while maintaining the 301 redirect?

At the moment I changed the .htaccess file with:

Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/

but when someone types olddomain.com/something/ instead of going into the homepage of the new site, they go to newdomain.com/something/.

How can I fix this while maintaining the 301 redirect for SEO reasons?

Answer 1

This will do the trick in .htaccess provided you have mod_rewrite module installed:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example2.com/? [R=301,L]

Just replace example with your domain and example2.com with the new domain to redirect to.