.htaccess and domain problem

[miles]

Hi, I have some issue with my new domain. The problem is when I type www.mynewdomain.com in the browser, it appears something like www.myolddomain.com/mynewdomain/ directory. My hosting company have looked into this matter and told me that something inside my .htaccess must have caused this. I'm not sure what zen mod I used to modify the .htaccess file. Maybe it's the Ultimate SEO URL mod or could be something else. Can someone please look at my .htaccess and let me know what should I do?

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php
##### NOTE: Replace /shop/ with the relative web path of your catalog in the "Rewrite Base" line below:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# From Ultimate SEO URLs
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For Open Operations Info Manager
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager
RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# All other pages
# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# =============================================================
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /
 #   -----------------------------------------------------------
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mens-designer-jackets\.com [NC]
     RewriteRule ^(.*)  http://www.mens-designer-jackets.com/$1 [L,R=301]
 #   -----------------------------------------------------------
   </IfModule>
 # =============================================================
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 38.99.203.110 

[mprough]

The only redirect in your config is the following canonical redirect...

# =============================================================
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /
 #   -----------------------------------------------------------
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mens-designer-jackets.com [NC]
     RewriteRule ^(.*)  http://www.mens-designer-jackets.com/$1 [L,R=301]
 #   -----------------------------------------------------------
   </IfModule>
 # =============================================================

If this (www.mens-designer-jackets.com) is not your new domain then you need to change the url in the redirect/rewrite to the new domain.

Additionally, it is most likely wise to redirect the old domain to the new, as this will (after a while) transfer any PageRank and backlinks to the new domain url.

Cheers,
Melanie

[miles]

Please look at the 'URL' within these two links here,

Without - WWW (As you can see my new domain next to old one)
With - WWW (No problem when I include the 'www')

See the differences?

When I change the 'redirect' URL in the .htaccess to my new domain, the old domain which is 'M-D-J'.com redirect to the new domain, which means the MDJ's site will not appear. I hope you got what I mean.

Should I create another .htaccess for the new domain?

[miles]

I just created another .htaccess file and change the URL's to my 2nd domain. It seems fine now. But is it OK to have several .htaccess for each website directory?

[binglebangle]

Having a seperate htaccess file in different folders is fine.

In fact, a lot of scripts have this.