Strange redirect to forums path

[Kaelon]

Hi there! Thanks in advance for your help.

I have an .htaccess file in my root:

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

So someone who would enter Aelyria Links gets the URL rewritten to Aelyria Links. This works pretty much fine, however, until someone enters http://aelyria.com/forums which instead gives them a 404 error. However, if you look at the URL to which they were directed (Firefox will show it), it looks like vbSEO redirected them to my Forums Path --

http://www.aelyria.com/forums//kunde...aelyria/forums

Obviously, this isn't the corrected URL to my forums. Any way we can fix this?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

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

[Kaelon]

Thanks, but, unfortunately, that didn't help. I added the rule in question, but it's still not making a difference. Did I add the rule incorrectly? Here's what I have:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.aelyria\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.aelyria.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.aelyria\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} forums/
RewriteRule (.*) Aelyria [R=301,L]

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

you should add that to the forums .htaccess, not to the root one.

[Kaelon]

Thanks, Oleg! That did it.

For other users who may experience this problem, the default forums .htaccess that comes with vbSEO already has that rewrite cond in place, so you will have to replace it.