Incorrectly redirecting from www.mydomain to mydomain.com

I have a .htacces like this :

PHP Code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^mydomain\.com [nc]
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foros
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /foros [r=301,nc] 


Since I have nothing on the root for now (planned to future).
Now, when my the visitor arrives at http://www.mydomain.com/foros, it is sent back to http://mydomain.com/foros !
I notice that if I get ride of the .hattaccess on the /foros root, it works as it used to work, so, it is the new .htaccess which is causing this.

Where do I configure this ? I want to keep the "www" always.

Hello,

please try to change

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foros

to:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^foros

mmm still does not redirect correctly.
going to www.mysite.com sends me to mysite.com/foros

Before I installed vBSeo my .htaccess was doing what I wanted.
I guess it might need to be modified, though.

Did you change your vBSEO's .htaccess file?

I didn't change it a bit.
I tried to include the rewritebase like this:
RewriteBase /foros/

But it didn't make any difference.

Did I have to change something else in the vbSeo .htaccess?

When I open http://www.yourdomain.com/foros/ it is loaded correctly without redirects. Do you still have the issue?

I think this solved it:

PHP Code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^mydomain\.com [nc]
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.mydomain\.com$ [nc]
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/foros/$1 [r=301,nc] 


I fixed a few minutes before your post by modifying my root .htaccess.
Still I don't know why it worked, why it stopped to work and why the new version is working fine now ...
Sorry, I'm a total rewrite ignorant.

The following should be better:

Code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^mydomain.com [nc]
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,r=301,nc]
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^foros
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/foros/$1 [r=301,nc]

because last rewrite rule in your .htaccess will force endless loop of redirects if you will remove vBSEO's .htaccess.

Yes, that one worked as well. I'll keep your version.

Thanks a lot !

You are welcome!