.htaccess hell

[dak888]

Looks like the best place for this post.

We have a url, www.ambrosiawindows.com.

After a buy out, the url was redirected to www.continentalwindowfashions (the new company) via the good ol' .htaccess file. I've done many redirects and even have a few other url's redirecting to this new domain.

Here is the problem, if you type in www.ambrosiawindows.com, if resolves perfectly to www.continentalwindowfashions.com. However, type in just ambrosiawindows.com (without the www) and guess what, it doesn't redirect. I've tried just about every form of redirecting this url that I can but I've run out of ideas. Here is the current code from the .htaccess:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AddType application/x-httpd-CGI .CGI
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml .htm .html

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ambrosiawindows.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ambrosiawindows.com/$1 [R=301,L]

redirect 301 / http://www.continentalwindowfashions.com/

Any help would be appreciated. Right now our site is sitting out there in duplicate content land and we would like to get this url redirected as soon as possible!!!

Thanks,

DaK

[dak888]

To kind of add to the mystery, it does in fact redirect to the correct website (www.continentalwindowfashions.com) however, the url still says ambrosiawindows.com.

But the site is getting mirrored. I can see this in google webmaster central as we have several incoming links coming from ambrosiawindows.com. And all of the pages that webmaster central shows as links coming from ambrosiawindows.com are actually pages on www.continentalwindowfashions.com.

This is getting really confusing...

DaK

[modrewrite]

Originally Posted by dak888

However, type in just ambrosiawindows.com (without the www) and guess what, it doesn't redirect.

try the Require the www

Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks Includes
AddType application/x-httpd-CGI .CGI
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml .htm .html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.ambrosiawindows\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.ambrosiawindows.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

[dak888]

Thanks for the reply modrewrite but to no avail. That does not seem to work.

Thanks,

DaK

[dak888]

This has been resolved.

Thanks everyone for looking.

DaK

[modrewrite]

Originally Posted by dak888

This has been resolved.

Thanks everyone for looking.

DaK

What fixed it for ya?