301 question

Hi all

I have a damn 301 problem which is really starting to piss me off.
I have just purchased two sites for someone. I shall call these
exampleexample.com and example-example.com

The owner wants to have all traffic point to the example-example.com
but with www.

I have tried 301 the exampleexample.com to point to
www.example-example.com but nothing happened.

I have tried 301 the example-example.com to point to
www.example-example.com and nothing happened.

Even went into my "manage domains" on godaddy and tried a 301 from
there too. Nothing.

Also, how can I tell if my Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled is enabled ?

Thanks all
plh
Paul
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The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi all

I have a damn 301 problem which is really starting to piss me off.
I have just purchased two sites for someone. I shall call these
exampleexample.com and example-example.com

The owner wants to have all traffic point to the example-example.com
but with www.

I have tried 301 the exampleexample.com to point to
www.example-example.com but nothing happened.

I have tried 301 the example-example.com to point to
www.example-example.com and nothing happened.

Even went into my "manage domains" on godaddy and tried a 301 from
there too. Nothing.

Also, how can I tell if my Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled is enabled ?

Are you using .htaccess? A simple check to see if .htaccess is read by
Apache is to type some garbage in the file and upload it.

(ASASASASHH will do)

If you get a 500 server error, you can be sure that .htaccess is read.

I have no idea if you get a 500 error as well if you forgot to enable the
rewrite engine.

<http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/12/rewritingurlsforgoogle.html>
shows the www to non-www example.

Change !^castleamber\.com$ to !^www\.castleamber\.com$
and http://castleamber.com/$1 to http://www.castleamber.com/$1

to do the reverse.


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On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:00:00 +0000, The Gobbling Goblin
<customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi all

I have a damn 301 problem which is really starting to piss me off.
I have just purchased two sites for someone. I shall call these
exampleexample.com and example-example.com

The owner wants to have all traffic point to the example-example.com
but with www.

I have tried 301 the exampleexample.com to point to
www.example-example.com but nothing happened.

I have tried 301 the example-example.com to point to
www.example-example.com and nothing happened.

Even went into my "manage domains" on godaddy and tried a 301 from
there too. Nothing.

Also, how can I tell if my Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled is enabled ?

Thanks all
plh
Paul

Okay, here's an update...

I have now gotten the non hyphenated URL to redirect to the hyphenated
URL.

But when I use the 301 redirect option in cpanel, to redirect the
non-www to www, the website in question just hangs.
I take off the 301 and the website immediately loads. grrrrr

Thanks all.
plh
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On 1 Dec 2007 01:25:58 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

[...]

Are you using .htaccess? A simple check to see if .htaccess is read by
Apache is to type some garbage in the file and upload it.

Hi John,
After 4.5 hours, 8 diet cokes, 14 fat joints, tons of hairpulling, I
have finally managed it. No thanks to the cpanel .htaccess.

(ASASASASHH will do)

eh ? <G>

If you get a 500 server error, you can be sure that .htaccess is read.

I did, but that was cos of me trying to point non www to www.
Took it off and it worked.
Found a solution, but had to add it manually cos cpanel is shite at
doing it correctly for you.

I have no idea if you get a 500 error as well if you forgot to enable the
rewrite engine.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/1...forgoogle.html
shows the www to non-www example.

Change !^castleamber\.com$ to !^www\.castleamber\.com$
and http://castleamber.com/$1 to http://www.castleamber.com/$1

to do the reverse.

To get mine to work, I had to manually add this code to .htaccess ...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^enlightenment-yorkshire\.org
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.enlightenment-yorkshire.org/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks for your help John.
Take care
plh
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The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi Paul,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^enlightenment-yorkshire\.org

I recommend to use:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.enlightenment-yorkshire\.org$

which basically says: if it's not www.enlightenment-yorkshire.org, then
redirect [1]

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.enlightenment-yorkshire.org/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks for your help John.
Take care
plh
Paul

[1] AFAIK this should work as well, but I am not 100% of the syntax:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.enlightenment-yorkshire.org

(see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...ml#RewriteCond )

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