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Htaccess 301 redirects after switching language detection method

We have a multilingual Drupal installation with a domain for each language. Like this:

  • domainexample.com
  • domainexample.no
  • domainexample.de
  • etc…

We want to switch to a single domain and use domain prefix instead:

  • domainexample.com/en
  • domainexample.com/no
  • domainexample.com/de
  • etc…

Settings this up through Drupal administration is no hassle – the problem is that the old domains should redirect to the new one. My guess is that this should be possible with some sneaky htaccess. I’m no expert here however. I currently have:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainexample.de$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domainexample.de$ RewriteRule (.*)$ http://domainexample.com/de/$1 [R=301,L]

…which works for the frontpage – but not for the subpages. They get redirected to this 404 page: domainexample.com/de/index.php.

How can this be solved?

/Morten

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