Quick htaccess question
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Hi! I'm trying to do a 301 from www.stevesims.com/index.htm to www.stevesims.com.
I know I need to use the request command to avoid an infinite loop, but I can't quite figure out the correct code. Here's the first part of the htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^stevesims.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.stevesims.com/$1 [R=301,L]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://stevesims.com/.$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://stevesims.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.stevesims.com/.$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.stevesims.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Ideally, you should avoid 301 redirect from index.php, as it will cause to go in infinite loop. I too have used 301 redirect earlier, but later applied a better way is Rel=canonical tag
Still, if you look for 301 redirect - below is the code which will help redirecting :-
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.index.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]May also see this url for all sort of redirection from html, php, non www page to www page http://www.gabblet.com/post/2011/09/27/301-redirect-for-index-non-www-to-www-using-htaccess.aspx
Let know how it goes
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This is my code : it redirect all
mysite.com to www.mysite.com and mysite.com/index.php to mysite.com (need to rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess)
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""># Redirect non-www to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /([^/]+/)[^.#?\ ]+.php([#?][^\ ])?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+).php http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
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