Domain redirect and .htaccess file

[EdderShredder]

Hello.

We are shortening our domain name and making it more inclusive to our area.

I have tried to redirect the site via a .htaccess file in the /usr/share/nginx/atom folder with the following contents (minus our new domain.)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The above code was recommended by the hosting provider.

The file was transferred over as a .htaccess file with no prefix and had its permissions changed to 0664.

It is not redirecting. I tried a couple of things including a server restart to no avail.

Am I inserting the file in the wrong directory?

Our atom install was created following the documentation on https://www.accesstomemory.org/en/ for AtoM 2.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
The documentation was followed to the letter and our install is on a single server.

Thanks 

Ed

[Dan Gillean]

Hi Ed, 

This type of custom configuration is something that you might have more success posting in the Nginx user forum - however, I did a bit of searching on your behalf and found some promising leads. It looks to me like the best way to do this is to add a second server block directly in your nginx configuration file, with a permament redirect in the old block. See: 

• https://www.nginx.com/blog/creating-nginx-rewrite-rules/
  
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-temporary-and-permanent-redirects-with-nginx
  
• https://bjornjohansen.no/nginx-redirect
  

You'll probably want to restart not just nginx, but also clear your cache and restart memcached and PHP-FPM (and clear your web browser cache as well), to ensure you are getting an updated version of the pages served to you when testing after the changes. On 14.04, the following commands will restart services and clear your application cache: 

• php symfony cc
• sudo service nginx reload
• sudo service php5-fpm restart
• sudo service memcached restart

Let us know if this helps! 

Cheers, 

Dan Gillean, MAS, MLIS
AtoM Program Manager
Artefactual Systems, Inc.
604-527-2056

@accesstomemory

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[David Juhasz]

Hi Ed,

.htaccess files are used by Apache Web Server exclusively, they won't work with an Nginx server.

Cheers,
David

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