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I ran Better Search Replace that found >2,300 instances or the old domain name in posts and postmeta tables. I ran it again to replace them all with artsyally.net, and still get the Permanently Moved 301 error.

Mystery Solved and some training for everyone!

The bizarre (to me) solution was to rearrange the two parts of my .htaccess. Here it is for anyone who similarly bangs their heads against their desks…

I need for my .htaccess to do two things; get people browsing Domain1.com to the WP instance in the web root of the site, and redirect users browsing Domain2.com to the WP instance in a subdirectory called SubdirectoryName herein. The code sections follow. The .htaccess file causing 301 errors for every page except Home had the redirect method BEFORE the WP method. I moved the WP method above the redirect method out of desperation and the site behaved normally, with Domain2.com redirecting as desired. No claim of knowing WHY it worked; only THAT it worked…

Moral of the story is that WP looks like a prima donna who demands to be recognized first.

Standard WP construct:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Redirect code to send Domain2.com to the WP instance in SubdirectoryName

# BEGIN redirect to SubdirectoryName
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain2.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/SubDirectoryName/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /SubDirectoryName/\
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain2.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ SubDirectoryName/index.php
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.(.*)?$ http://domain2.com/SubDirectoryName/ [r=301]
# END redirect to SubdirectoryName

Danged if I can completely interpret either of those chunks. We don’t have to learn every piece of code any longer and the WP ecosystem is alive and well. Glad to pay for X, support, and a few worthy plugins to reduce the incline of the learning curve. I just don’t have time – or desire – to fool with it these days. I designed my first site in Notepad, with a few buttons and a header built in Photoshop, in about 1997 to put my senior research paper online (http://alancole.com/oldeoriginal) – just to see if I could. Then you HAD to know every dot and slash, but there were fewer of them, and it was more of a conquest thing. You could, as the book was entitled, “Learn HTML in 24 Hours”.

I hope this helps some frustrated soul get a few extra hours of sleep.