Force WWW with htaccess

[Lynne]

Mine is almost the same as Valter's.

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

[vBNinja]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Mine is almost the same as Valter's.

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

where do you include the "/forum" directory there so it doesnt redirect to the root domain where my forums isnt at...

[Lynne]

That works for my site even though I have my site in /forums

Have you tried these? It just takes seconds to see if it works or not.

[vBNinja]

got it working!

had to make a minor change to that code though

Thank You

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by ivant

got it working!

had to make a minor change to that code though

Thank You

Why don't you post what you did since it may help someone else who finds this thread.

[Boofo]

Here is what I use to redirect to my forums dir:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/forums\/" [R=301,L]

Lynne, what is the $1 for at the end of your site url?

[vBNinja]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Why don't you post what you did since it may help someone else who finds this thread.

i just added the "/forums" at the end

Originally Posted by Boofo

Here is what I use to redirect to my forums dir:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/forums\/" [R=301,L]

Lynne, what is the $1 for at the end of your site url?

thats just to show the page you are opening within that directory..

[Boofo]

You lost me. How does it know what page to show?

[Lynne]

Think of $1 as like a variable. You passed it a url mydomain.com/somelinkhere.php and the somelinkhere.php is the $1.

At least, that is how I think of it.

[Boofo]

That is what I thought. But I don't see you setting it anywhere in the htaccess. Where does it get set?