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I am trying to redirect only my top level domain eg. domain.com to sub.domain.com. The inner pages of the domain should not be redirected.

I followed the following link: How to redirect root and only root via htaccess?

But when doing a search on my site, the query was appended to the sub domain like:

sub.domain.com/?q=product where it should have been domain.com/?q=product

My current htaccess already has to following that has rewritten:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(png|gif|ico|swf|jpe?g|js|css)$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L,QSA]

What do I add to achieve the behaviour stated above?

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Just below the RewriteEngine On, add:

RewriteRule ^$ http://sub.domain.com [R=301,L]

If I'm reading correctly, it sounds like you want to keep the query string. But if you want to delete it, you'd use:

RewriteRule ^$ http://sub.domain.com? [R=301,L]

Edit: To only redirect the / page in the case that it has no query string, use:

RewriteCond ${QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^$ http://sub.domain.com [R=301,L]
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    I tried RewriteRule ^/$ http://sub.domain.com? [R=301,L] but it is not redirecting. Commented Apr 2, 2013 at 12:37
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    @komirad My mistake, it's in an htaccess file - use ^$ instead of ^/$. Commented Apr 2, 2013 at 20:43
  • It redirected but the query string on form submit didn't work. Some javascript widgets failed too. Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 2:33
  • @komirad Can you clarify whether you wanted to keep or remove the query string in the redirect? Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 2:38
  • The query string need to be kept. Search form on sub.domain.com when submitted should go to domain.com/?q=dress Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 6:28
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I am using this statement:

ServerName mydomain.tld RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mydomain.tld [R=301,L]

You can also reuse all parameters by this rule:

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mydomain.tld$1 [R=301,L]
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  • Tried RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mydomain.tld$1 [R=301,L] but the query string is appended to the redirected sub domain instead of the top level domain. Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 2:36

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