Why Homepage doesn't use WWW but other pages do?

hi,

this is kinda driving me nuts. been searching and trying different things with .htaccess files but hope someone has an idea.

when i type in the address of the forum (ie http://www.website/forum), it magically redirects it to http://website.com/forum.

but once you click to view a thread, it reverts back to the www version.

only the forum home doesn't like the www.

any ideas?

thanks!

Hello, welcome to vBSEO forums!.

Can you please supply the code you have in your .htaccess?. It's likely you have the following:

Code:

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

Or something similar. It should be:

Code:

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

here's the .htaccess code in my root directory.

Code:

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

# 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

and here's the .htaccess code in my forum directory that i was to upload from vbseo.

Code:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

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

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

if it helps..i noticed that....

typing in http://www.website.com/forum - reverts to http://website.com/forum

typing in http://www.website.com/forum/ - reverts to http://www.website.com/forum/

so the trailing slash at the end seems to be related.

i checked my admincp and the option for:

URL of your forum.
Note: do not add a trailing slash. ('/')

there is no trailing slash as instructed.

plus when i click on a thread, it reverts back to www so it's only the homepage of the forum that's being affected. but that's b/c there is a trailing slash at the end of each thread url.

Thanks!

Please try to change in your "forum/" .htaccess file:

Find:

Code:

#RewriteBase /

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

Replace with:

Code:

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

Take care of replacing yoursite.com with your own domain.

thank you. that solved the problem. just for reference...why was that necessary to add the code? i'm assuming majority of installs would work fine..but why was mine a bit different?

In some cases it's neccesary to enable RewriteBase due to that can be possible that are another users sharing your server, or in PHP configuration you have enabled doc_root directive.

I'm glad the issue is fixed now!. Let me know if there's anything else I may help with.