301 Redirect

[magosla2001]

I tried a 301 redirection to my blog with the below script;

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

The problem i experience is it redirects to Magnus Lator instead of Magnus Lator.

[wige]

What exactly are you trying to do? Redirect everything that has a subdomain other than www to the www version? Or only redirect the requests with no subdomain? Because these directives seem to look for a subsubdomain, which you probably do not have.

[magosla2001]

I am redirecting only Magnus Lator & magnuslator.com to Magnus Lator. But I have been able to retify the problem. It was from wordpress General Options. The url was set as Magnus Lator instead of Magnus Lator

[incrediblehelp]

Working here for me

[magosla2001]

I am having problem with this .htacess script;

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

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


The problem is it tries opening http://www.mysite.com/f/f/f/f/f/fffffffff/f/f/f/f/f/f/
in this case the /f is being repeated.

[Jean-Luc]

I would try this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/f/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^f\/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/f/$1 [L,R=301]

This .htaccess should redirect any hit on the www site to the /f directory and any other subdomain to the /f directory of the www site.

Jean-Luc

[wige]

Two things. First, you are combining two redirects that need to be seperate, second, do you actually have sub-subdomains?

RewriteEngine On
# First, force everything to the www. subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST !^(.*)\.mysite\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/ [R=301, L]
# Then rewrite all requests so that they go to the /f/ folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/f/
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/f/$1 [R=301, L]

[magosla2001]

For now I want all request to be redirected to the F directory with www site. The same 301 redirect script was used on one of my sites and it worked perfect. But in this case it opens /f/f/f/f/f/f/

[Jean-Luc]

That's because of the recursion here:

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

Did you try my suggestion ?

Jean-Luc

[wige]

I think with older versions of Apache, the RewriteEngine on directive acted as kind of a reset of the rules. The thing to remember is that {HTTP_HOST} never contains anything but the domain/subdomain. So for your second rule, where you are trying to test the requested path, that will never be contained in the host line. A request for a page on your site looks like the following:

GET /somefolder/somepage.html
Host: www.somedomain.com

To test what folder the user is requesting, you need to use the value on the GET (or if form data is being submitted, POST) line, which is in the {REQUEST_URI} variable for mod_rewrite. You also are not testing if the user is already in the /f/ folder, which is why the user gets stuck in an endless loop.

[wige]

Jean-Luc, just to make sure I am reading your rules correctly:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com$ #you are testing for the proper domain
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/f/$1 [L,R=301] #You are sending the user to the correct domain
RewriteRule ^f\/ - [L] #If the user is already in the f folder, you stop redirecting
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/f/$1 [L,R=301] #Otherwise you send the user to the f directory

If that is correct, I see a potential problem. If somehow the www. gets dropped from an otherwise valid link, the user will get an extra /f/ directory. In other words, a request to domain.com/f/page.html would redirect to www.domain.com/f/f/page.html. I would remove the /f from the second line, separate detection of the subdomain from detection of the folder.

[Jean-Luc]

Wige,

I agree. Your remark is valid, but I believe that magosla2001 will never get hits on the f directory in other subdomains (I got the impression that the f directory was recently created), but I can be wrong.

Jean-Luc

[wige]

Jean-Luc,

I definitely agree, it is unlikely, but just suggest it because it will provide a small amount of future proofing. You never know when a spider might get a URL wrong for some reason, (Slurp, for example) or a webmaster in the future leaves a www off an inbound link.

[Jean-Luc]

Absolutely right. You cannot be too careful.

Jean-Luc