Domain – redirect domain to another domain (and path)

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I have my wordpress blog at firstdomain.com/blog and I want to access the blog as seconddomain.com. How do I set up seconddomain.com to make it happen?

EDIT:
If I'm not wrong, the steps involved are:

forward the domain seconddomain.com to blog.firstdomain.com (I have created blog.firstdomain.com subdomain)
forward blog.firstdomain.com to firstdomain.com/blog

I want to do so in such a way that:

At the end of this setting, when i click on seconddomain.com/abc, it points to firstdomain.com/blog/abc
The address bar shows seconddomain.com/abc even after redirection mentioned in #1
The approach is SEO friendly.
When I hover on the link on the blog, the status bar should display seconddomain.com/… and not firstdomain.com/blog/…

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The answer is dependent on what kind of providers you use for both domain and hosting, what they use as software and possibly what sort of control panels they offer. It does not sound like you do the hosting yourself, but then the answer would be: Point seconddomain.com to the same IP as firstdomain.com (by modifying the A record), and use VirtualHost or similar directives on the (web) server to deliver the content that is currently served by firstdomain.com/blog when people access seconddomain.com. Then you might want to redirect firstdomain.com/blog/* to seconddomain.com/* .

It's really not easy to answer without knowing details. If both domains and hosting are maintained by someone for you, it's best to ask there.

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Nginx redirect to another domain not forgetting about the subdomains

Something along the following lines should work for you (this will redirect test.com to abc.com):

server {
# Listen on ipv4 and ipv6 for requests
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;

# Listen for requests on all subdomains and the naked domain
server_name test.com *.test.com;

# Check if this is a subdomain request rather than on the naked domain
if ($http_host ~ (.*)\.test\.com) {
    # Yank the subdomain from the regex match above
    set $subdomain $1;

    # Handle the subdomain redirect
    rewrite ^ http://$subdomain.abc.com$request_uri permanent;
    break;
}
# Handle the naked domain redirect
rewrite ^ http://abc.com$request_uri permanent;
}

This should ensure the naked domain and any sub (or sub, sub) domains are redirected to the new "base" domain. A few examples of this in practice:

phoenix:~ damian$ curl -I -H "Host: test.com" web1-france
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.1.1
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:43:45 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 160
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://abc.com/

phoenix:~ damian$ curl -I -H "Host: subdomain1.test.com" web1-france
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.1.1
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:43:50 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 160
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://subdomain1.abc.com/

phoenix:~ damian$ curl -I -H "Host: wibble.subdomain1.test.com" web1-france
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.1.1
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:43:55 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 160
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://wibble.subdomain1.abc.com/

On the rewrite line you could specify "last" rather than "permanent" to get a 302 Moved Temporarily rather than a 301 Moved Permanently. If you are moving domains the later is what you should be going for :)

Hope this helps.

Domain – Simple apache2 redirect from one domain to another

You can use the RedirectPermanent directive to redirect the client to your new URL.

Just create a very simple VirtualHost for the old domain in which you redirect it to the new domain:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName xy.example.com
    RedirectPermanent / http://abc.example.com/
    # optionally add an AccessLog directive for
    # logging the requests and do some statistics
</VirtualHost>

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Nginx redirect to another domain not forgetting about the subdomains

Domain – Simple apache2 redirect from one domain to another

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