Changing Primary Domain

[HoLyCoW]

My clan's website currently has a domain name that we want to change.

Right now it's setup so that:

http://www.domain1.com redirects to http://domain1.com
http://www.domain2.com redirects to http://domain1.com
http://domain2.com redirects to http://domain1.com

How can we change this so that our domain2 is the main domain name?

http://domain2.com redirects to http://www.domain2.com
http://www.domain1.com redirects to http://www.domain2.com
http://domain1.com redirects to http://www.domain2.com

Thanks in advance

[Edge100x]

It depends on how you have the redirect set up and your application. Are you running this on our webhosting here?

[HoLyCoW]

Yes, the webhosting is currently done by nuclear fallout.

Here's my clan's current setup:

[Edge100x]

Do you have the redirect set up through an .htaccess file, or is it through your application settings?

[HoLyCoW]

Well there are no .htaccess files, so it would have to be through the application.

[TimeX]

Are you certain that file doesn't exist? It is hidden by default and can only be seen with an FTP client enabled to show hidden files.

[HoLyCoW]

Yeah, I have my ftp client setup to show hidden files.

[IcEWoLF]

Yeah, I have my ftp client setup to show hidden files.

Then create an .htacess file with the redirects.

[HoLyCoW]

But now with no .htaccess file, it automatically goes to domain1.com

So, wouldn't that create an infinite loop if I redirect domain1.com to domain2.com?

If I create the .htacess file, would this be sufficient?

.htaccess

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain1.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain2.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

[Edge100x]

If going to domain2 automatically redirects to domain1 right now, then you will have to look in your application for a setting for this. In phpbb, for instance, it would be under Server Settings->Domain name in the ACP.