[How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

It should work recursively... i.e. would be automatically applied to all folders accessed as a /sub/ to the root / .

What is the best way to find out why it is not? I don't mind adding the .htacess file to all the folders but I would like to understand why it's not working.

Thanks,

It works now.

Great!

The root .htacess file is NOT recursive?

IF you have .htaccess file in a subfolder, then parent .htaccess doesn't affect this folder.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Great!
IF you have .htaccess file in a subfolder, then parent .htaccess doesn't affect this folder.

Ah. That explains it. I have several .htacess files in different subfolders for other applications.

Thank you very much for the help!

You are welcome!

Well, I guess I spoke to soon. I was at work and could not test this thoroughly. Here is what I found.

When in the site ROOT the rewrite works perfectly in all cases. That would be if the url has a trailing slash (/) or a http:// prefix or any combination of the two (without www). Example

Code:

jeep-cj.com, http://jeep-cj.com, jeep-cj.com/ and http://jeep-cj.com/

is always rewritten to

Code:

http://www.jeep-cj.com/

If going to the forum url without a trailing slash (/)

Code:

http://jeep-cj.com/forums or jeep-cj.com/forums

using IE I get a page not found error (404). If the url HAS a trailing slash (/) with or without the http:// prefix the rewrite works.


Under Firefox - The above is true (404 - page not found error) EXCEPT the url is rewritten to

Code:

http://www.jeep-cj.com/forums/home/jeepcj/public_html/forums

regardless if the http:// prefix is used or not.


It would seem that without the trailing slash (/) the rewrite does not function in the forum root but does function in the web root.

Thanks for all the help

Please check this: Add www to forum url with no trailing slash

Wow - that was fast. I searched but did not find that. It worked and now no more 404's. I sure am learning allot!

Thanks for the second time!

it is, but only if the folders below it don't have an htaccess themselves. since you forum folder has one, it basically overrides the root htaccess file.

now, /someotherfolder/ will be effected by root, as it doesn't have an htaccess file in it (presumably... frontpage, etc can screw this up )

try it out.
make a new folder and go to the non-www version of it. it should direct to www.site.com/someotherfolder/

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Choosing to Use the WWW version of your domain ONLY

Edit your .htaccess file.
At the top, add the following new lines:

Code:

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

This works for my forum, but now i cant use my subdomains :(

My subdomains redirect he to forum homepage.

Hello,

if your subdomains are located in a subfolder, try to create .htaccess file in it with one line:
RewriteEngine off

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello,

if your subdomains are located in a subfolder, try to create .htaccess file in it with one line:
RewriteEngine off

Fixed, thank you very much!

You are welcome!

I tried using this tutorial but seems like i am missing something

and when i try to go to

Code:

http://scorechase.com/gmat/

it goes back to my front page instead of going to

Code:

http://www.scorechase.com/gmat/

Here is the excerpt from the .htaccess

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


could you please help

Thanks

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

IF you have .htaccess file in a subfolder, then parent .htaccess doesn't affect this folder.

Well figured it out .. the above line is the crux of the solution. put similar code in all the subfolders which have .htaccess in them.