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Description of my issue: Need .htaccess help

Nicholas, oh god of the .htaccess file, I was wondering if you could help out on an issue I am having. I have 7 different domain names all pointing to my main domain. For example, I have cactusblank.com that points to turntex.com. (not sure of the technical name but Bluehost calls it parked). When someone visits my site via cactusblank.com, it loads the page as cactusblank.com. However, when the try to login via virtuemart using the mod_virtuemart_login, it takes them to turntex.com and give an invalid token message.

Is there a way to handle this in the .htaccess file? I can, or course, create a re-direct in my c-panel but am afraid of what that will do to my search engine rankings. If not in the .htaccess file, do you have any other suggestions? Thank in advance for any help you can provide.

Thanks for the feedback and information, Nicholas. I did not realize that having the 7 domains pointing to the same content was a problem. I am on the first page with all of my typical search criteria, usually in the number 1 or 2 position but then again, my product is pretty specialized and unique.

Would it be better to use the .htaccess file to redirect to my main domain or use the re-direct with a 301 (I think that is what it was) that is available from my cpanel?

If I remember correctly about the cPanel redirects, they produce .htaccess directives in the .htaccess file to do the redirects. So, you could easily produce these yourself or have cPanel do them.

I would suggest using the tools in Admin Tools Pro to do the redirection as Nicholas suggested. it will put it in the right place in the .htaccess file.

If you do it through cPanel, it will put them at the end of the file, which does no good. You'd have to move them to the beginning.

You are already using AT, go ahead and use it for that as well as you are going to have the same outcome with the cPanel redirects in the end.

See Nicholas' previous post that mentions what function to use in the .htaccess maker.

Thank you, rkendallc (sorry, don't know your name!).

I contacted my host and asked them which one to do and they suggested the c-panel method would be easier but they are not familiar with the wonderful tool we have in AdminTools! I also asked them if the c-panel redirect modified the .htaccess file and the confirmed that it does so I just used AdminTools and have it all redirecting great now!

Thank you to both of you for the great help and support!!