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 *   Forum: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you redirect the same slug on 2 different domains in a WordPress Network?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jonathon Hewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathonhewitt/)
 * (@jonathonhewitt)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/#post-2404622)
 * Ok so I figured it out! I just had to add the little $1 at the end of the destination
   URLs and it works like a charm!
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bchyundai.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bchyundai.com/$1 [L,R=301]
   
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bchyundai.com [NC]
       RewriteRule browse/view_detailed/type_used/(.*)$ http://usedcars.bchyundai.com/bchyundaiv2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bcmazda.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bcmazda.com/$1 [L,R=301]
   
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bcmazda.com [NC]
       RewriteRule browse/view_detailed/type_used/(.*)$ http://usedcars.bcmazda.com/bcmazdav2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
       # uploaded files
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
       ```
   
 *   Forum: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you redirect the same slug on 2 different domains in a WordPress Network?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jonathon Hewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathonhewitt/)
 * (@jonathonhewitt)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/#post-2404614)
 * The last question I have is; is there a way to make it a one for all redirect,
   such as you set one redirect for each domain and all slugs would just carry over?
 * This doesn’t seem to work in this case. I would like it if even sitemap/browse/
   view_detailed/type_used/ would still trigger the 1st redirect and carry the visitor
   over to the intended page: [http://usedcars.bcmazda.com/bcmazdav2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/](http://usedcars.bcmazda.com/bcmazdav2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/)
   for example. So basically anything that has “browse/view_detailed/type_used/”
   in the slug would go there nomatter if it had characters before it or after it.
   And whats after it would carry over to the end of the intended path. An example
   of this working is:
 * Please visit: [PC AutoMall’s Sitemap](http://www.pcautomall.com/sitemap/) Page(
   just for an example page with some type of slug) and use the inventory search
   function that is in the top of sidebar to the right, just click “Search Vehicles”(
   no drop down selection is needed but will work if you select a make or model)
   and you will notice that the redirect that is in place there will take you right
   to the intended page with the “browse/view_detailed/type_used/” at the end.
 * This is what I have set up for the PCAutoMall.com .htaccess right now (the one
   that works nomatter what the slug):
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
   
       Redirect 301 /browse/view_detailed/type_used/ http://usedcars.pcautomall.com/pcautomallv2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/
       Redirect 301 /browse/view_detailed/type_new/ http://newcars.pcautomall.com/pcautomallv2/browse/view_detailed/type_new/
   
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
   
       # uploaded files
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)  wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
       RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * So why does this work with PCAutoMall.com but not with BCHyundai.com?
 *   Forum: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you redirect the same slug on 2 different domains in a WordPress Network?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jonathon Hewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathonhewitt/)
 * (@jonathonhewitt)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/#post-2404585)
 * Ok bud sorry for taking a while to update this again and thank you very much 
   as this seems to be even close to perfection. I just have one more question as
   this is working from the homepage (root domain) but anytime you visit any other
   page it goes to a 404 page and does not carry over the trailing part of the URL.
   Example: please visit the [Hyundai Sitemap](http://www.bchyundai.com/sitemap/)
   page and then click on the blue search button in the header area (no drop down
   selection is needed) you will find yourself at the following slug: /sitemap/browse/
   view_detailed/type_used/ which means that it completely missed the redirect and
   did not go to the sub-domain either as does now in the root of both sites. If
   you visit another one of my websites with this same type of search function installed(
   which is also on a WordPress network) here on the [Honda Sitemap](http://www.pcautomall.com/sitemap/)
   page and then you just click “Search Vehicles” in the top right of the sidebar,
   even though you are on the /sitemap/ slug, the search function seems to trigger
   the redirect and go to the intended sub-domain and all. I just don’t understand
   why it works on one site and not the other. Uggg… And btw, can I buy you a cup
   of coffee or a beer for this? lolz this is a big help to my company being able
   to utilize WordPress networks for future builds.
 *   Forum: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you redirect the same slug on 2 different domains in a WordPress Network?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jonathon Hewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathonhewitt/)
 * (@jonathonhewitt)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/#post-2404561)
 * Well by the number of downloads you have you must have learned all this stuff
   the hard way then, trial and error type of thing. Very impressive! And Anthropology
   is perhaps the most important thing that one can study, I base the study of all
   other sciences on that one science!
 * I love WordPress and plan to become a recognized WordPress development company
   in the automotive industry one day. To give you the short synopsis here:
 * We are an automotive web design and SEO company and have become resellers of 
   HomeNet Automotive who is a large provider of automotive inventory data for car
   dealers. They have a “backweb” setup which after a cname record change this allows
   us to display each dealers inventory on a subdomain of the dealer’s domain name.
   We are one of the first companies to try to fully integrate a dealers inventory
   using HomeNet into WordPress(to the best of our knowledge).
 * If you visit [Barnes Crossing Hyundai](http://www.bchyundai.com/) which is built
   in WordPress you will notice the inventory search function that we have built
   that is showing in the header(ours in the header is just a styled version of 
   this: [http://usedcars.bchyundai.com/bchyundaiv2/quicksearch-price.asp?type=used](http://usedcars.bchyundai.com/bchyundaiv2/quicksearch-price.asp?type=used)
   which if you click it, it works until rendered using a php iframe), if you just
   click search you will notice that the redirect in place will bring you to the
   subdomain (usedcars.bchyundai.com) and that is where our inventory pages are.
 * This dealer also has a Mazda dealership named [Barnes Crossing Mazda](http://www.bcmazda.com/)
   which is a network blog in the same network as the Hyundai site so they are utilizing
   the same .htaccess file. Firstly, the inventory search function on the Mazda 
   site is just going to the redirect set for Hyundai because it is the same slug(
   I need same slug to go to diff pages based on which domain they are on). So if
   you try to use the inventory search function in the header of the Mazda site 
   you will end up on the Hyundai inventory pages due to this.
 * If I remove the redirects entirely the inventory search function will input the
   ending slug, but you end up on a 404 page because it will not go to the subdomain
   and will still show the www. instead of the intended subdomain usedcars.
 * These redirects are basically a hack and the true way to implement this would
   be using HomeNet’s API to build the inventory search and inventory display pages.
   We are not there yet, we are working on that and then we could scrap the backwebs
   entirely and display everything locally on pages spooled up by WordPress.
 * I could fix the issue for the time being by making each site its own WordPress
   installation but I really am trying to keep it all in one dashboard using a WP
   network because I just think this makes sense.
 * So to clearly answer your question after somewhat of an explanation behind all
   this, when I used the code mentioned in my last reply the inventory search function
   sent me to this url: [http://www.bchyundai.com/browse/view_detailed/type_used/](http://www.bchyundai.com/browse/view_detailed/type_used/)
   when I really wanted it to send me here: [http://usedcars.bchyundai.com/bchyundaiv2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/](http://usedcars.bchyundai.com/bchyundaiv2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/)
 * (The url it sent me to is the same url that I get sent to when I remove the 301
   redirects.)
 *   Forum: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you redirect the same slug on 2 different domains in a WordPress Network?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jonathon Hewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathonhewitt/)
 * (@jonathonhewitt)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/#post-2404558)
 * Thank you for finding that, although this still did not work for me here is what
   I did:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^BCHYUNDAI.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.BCHYUNDAI.com/$1 [L,R=301]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bchyundai.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^browse/view_detailed/type_used/\.aspx$ http://usedcars.bchyundai.com/bchyundaiv2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/ [R=301,NC,L]
   
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^BCMAZDA.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.BCMAZDA.com/$1 [L,R=301]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bcmazda.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^browse/view_detailed/type_used/\.aspx$ http://usedcars.bcmazda.com/bcmazdav2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/ [R=301,NC,L]
   
       # uploaded files
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
       RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * Now the interesting part is that I think this is somewhat closer to something
   that could work as the sites didn’t throw any kind of error after I uploaded 
   this one, the redirect just didn’t go to the subdomain that we need it to go 
   to. This is what I get for not going to school for web dev.
 *   Forum: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you redirect the same slug on 2 different domains in a WordPress Network?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jonathon Hewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathonhewitt/)
 * (@jonathonhewitt)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-redirect-the-same-slug-on-2-different-domains-in-a-wordpress-network/#post-2404526)
 * Thank you for your reply, although I tried this and it did not work. Here is 
   what my code looked like after your suggestion:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^BCHYUNDAI.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.BCHYUNDAI.com/$1 [L,R=301]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?bchyundai.com\.told [NC]
       RewriteRule ^browse/view_detailed/type_used/\.aspx$ http://usedcars.bchyundai.com/bchyundaiv2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/ [R=301,NC,L]
   
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^BCMAZDA.com [NC]
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.BCMAZDA.com/$1 [L,R=301]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?bcmazda.com\.told [NC]
       RewriteRule ^browse/view_detailed/type_used/\.aspx$ http://usedcars.bcmazda.com/bcmazdav2/browse/view_detailed/type_used/ [R=301,NC,L]
   
       # uploaded files
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
       RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * Thank you again for your help!

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