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rbacal · 03-22-2006, 10:37 AM

One of our sites got hit in google and has gone supplemental. I'm trying to ensure that pages are accessed only thru mydomain.com rather than www.mydomain.com using .htaccess using the following code.

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

This seems to work for all pages EXCEPT those involving a perl script in cgi-bin which isn't redirecting. The htaccess file is in httpdocs, while the cgi-bin directory is in root (however I can't create an .htaccess file in root (no permissions to do so).

Is there something obvious I am missing to get this to work?

PS. As for google, oddly enough we have about eight domains, with one attempting this kind of redirect. The ONLY site that got hit in the SERPS was the one with the redirect (which is the opposite of what I expected due to possible dupe content issues). Anyone got any comments on this?

**Jan** · 03-29-2006, 05:58 AM

This might be better placed in Webmaster Issues

*moved*

nitpat1 · 04-10-2011, 11:41 AM

When you create a .htaccess file make sure you transfer it in ASCII and not binary. You will probably want to CHMOD the file to 644 for security reasons as well. .htaccess is an
Apache technology and not a windows server technology

03-22-2006, 10:37 AM	#1
rbacal Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba Posts: 210	301 redirect help One of our sites got hit in google and has gone supplemental. I'm trying to ensure that pages are accessed only thru mydomain.com rather than www.mydomain.com using .htaccess using the following code. Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST** ^www.mydomain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301] This seems to work for all pages EXCEPT those involving a perl script in cgi-bin which isn't redirecting. The htaccess file is in httpdocs, while the cgi-bin directory is in root (however I can't create an .htaccess file in root (no permissions to do so). Is there something obvious I am missing to get this to work? PS. As for google, oddly enough we have about eight domains, with one attempting this kind of redirect. The ONLY site that got hit in the SERPS was the one with the redirect (which is the opposite of what I expected due to possible dupe content issues). Anyone got any comments on this?

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03-29-2006, 05:58 AM	#2
Jan Join Date: May 2001 Location: Beautiful Darwin Posts: 4,752	This might be better placed in Webmaster Issues moved

04-10-2011, 11:41 AM	#3
nitpat1 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 13	When you create a .htaccess file make sure you transfer it in ASCII and not binary. You will probably want to CHMOD the file to 644 for security reasons as well. .htaccess is an Apache technology and not a windows server technology