Apache modrewrite htaccess redirect - .htaccess

Question

I have tried every variation I can find (found examples on Stack Overflow and elsewhere but they don't work for my situation either).
Here is my revised .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex index.html
RewriteEngine On
# New Try - apparently does nothing
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?fubar\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/?snafu\/?(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://snafu.com/%1 [R,L]
# First try - apparently does nothing
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?fubar\.com
RewriteRule ^\/?snafu\/?(.*)$ https://snafu.com/$1 [R,L]
# this works as expected
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?fubar\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.fubar.com/$1 [R,L]
I show above the two ways I have tried to cause
http://www.fubar.com/snafu
to redirect to
http://snafu.com
Neither paragraph does anything.
The last paragraph in the file works as expected, so I know that Apache
is doing it's thing properly.
Clearly the file is working in some cases, but I cannot figure out what is going wrong for the other cases.
As suggested, I replaced all my code above with:
DirectoryIndex index.html
Redirect 301 /snafu https://snafu.com
When I try to browse to http://www.fubar.com/snafu/index.html
I get the Firefox message: The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
However, the browser URL window displays the desired destination https://snafu.com/index.html
Chrome reports: The snafu.com page isn’t working
snafu.com redirected you too many times.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
Again, the browser URL window displays the desired destination https://snafu.com/index.html
Internet Explorer says: Not Found
The requested URL /snafu.com/index.html was not found on this server.
Opera says: The snafu.com page isn’t working snafu.com redirected you too many times.
Safari says: Safari can't open the page "https://snafu.com/index.html" because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server "snafu.com"
I don't know if this is important, but both fubar.com and snafu.com have the same IP address - if I clear the browser cache I can directly navigate to https://snafu.com/index.html without problem, so again it appears that Apache is doing its thing properly.
The snafu.com root directory contains the .htaccess file below, which appears to work as expected:
DirectoryIndex index.html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?snafu.fubar\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://snafu.com/$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?snafu\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://snafu.com/$1 [R,L]
Removing this file does not change any of the browser behaviors.
My tentative conclusion is that the simple Redirect 301 /snafu https://snafu.com command is confused because both snafu and fubar have the same IP address. But the ModRewrite should be smarter - I am just not smart enough to come up with the right incantation.
Where am I going wrong? My goal is to make all existing links that reference fubar.com/snafu to be redirected to snafu.com so that search engines are not confused by two different ways to access the same content.

Answer 1

Can you try to add this in your htaccess
Redirect 301 /snafu http://snafu.com