Web Hosting : .htaccess issues – Redirect

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This web hosting thread started by slingshot on 9 September 2008

I saw another post in here relative to .htaccess and redirecting domains, however, I am not getting the output that I think I desire.

I have a site http://www.oldsite.com and we purchased a new domain and rebuilt the site from scratch. The new domain is http://www.newdomain.com for instance.

We have the need to ensure all traffic forwards to http://www.newdomain.com even if someone visits a bookmark.

The following rewrite example gets me part of the way there and I have tried a couple of modified instances of the rewrite

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.newdomain.\org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.org/$1 [L,R=301]

When I visit previously bookmarked sites I am taking to the new home page, however I get this as well: http://www.newdomain.com/modules.php…e=print&sid=47 which is still a reference to the old site.

Is there away to get it to drop the garbage at the end? I have tried removing the $1 as suggested in another thread, but to no avail.

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