SEO friendly redirect + questions

[Iskib]

I am using forums in the / forums with no landing page.

Now I know a 301 redirect is the best SEO friendly redirect using .htaccess

Redirect 301 /old/old.html http://www.you.com/new.html

I also want to redirect all http://mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com

I can do this with the .htaccess file using this code

RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yoursite.com 
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The question I have is can I use both like

RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yoursite.com 
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect 301 /old/old.html http://www.you.com/forums

Thanks in advance

[Brandon Sheley]

does it work when you use both ?

[Iskib]

Not sure that is what I am asking.

[valdet]

Hi there,
I am facing a similar issue here.

I managed to redirect from http://domain.net to http://www.domain.net with this htaccess trick

RewriteEngine On
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^yoursite.net
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.net/$1 [R=301,L]

My question is how can I redirect http://domain.net/forum to http://www.domain.net/forum ?

The code below does not seem to work.

RewriteEngine On
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^yoursite.net/forum
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.net/forum$1 [R=301,L]

Any clues...

Thanks

[Dean C]

Have you thought about the opposite approach and actually dropping the usage of www. It's somewhat redundant unless you are using an alternative to the www config.

[Iskib]

No I never really thought about dropping the www.

With the www or without the www I still would like to beable to redirect eithier domain.com to www.domain.com and/or www. domain.com to domain.com

I would also like to redirect the same with the /forums

Any ideas would be great.
I mean i know if a user types in domain.com I can redirect to www. or the other way.
Now what is there go directly to the forums ? what would be the code to redriect that ?

[Dismounted]

RewriteEngine On

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

Redirects everything to include "www.".