regex - Redirect all traffic to root of another domain

Question

I have a domain that's not to be used anymore. I want to redirect all from http://www.old.com/ to http://www.new.com/, no matter what page the user's attempted to access on www.old.com.

Doing this:

RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 / http://www.new.com/

is fine for the root, but other pages would do this:

http://www.old.com/cms -> http://www.new.com/cms

whereas I'd want it to go to the root, no matter what.

Answer 1

From http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php I'd say you can use the following configuration

Don't redirect subfolders/files (as you wanted): www.example.com/demo/ -> www.newexampledomain.com

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]

Redirect to subfolders/files: www.example.com/demo/ -> www.newexampledomain.com/demo/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]