SO...How did you guys pull it off? (.htaccess)

[phdev]

I run a forum in the /forum/ directory and I can't get .htaccess to redirect users from the non-www version to the www version. I see that this is done on the vbulletin.com website so please tell me how to do it.

I've seen many threads on how to redirect the root, but I need the .htaccess to do it if my forum is in /forum/

Thank you!

[mhc1576]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.domain.com/forum [L,R=301]

[phdev]

Hi, that did not work - when I type in phenforum.com/forum in my browser, it doesn't redirect to the www version.

What can I do?

[Wayne Luke]

Does your server have mod_rewrite turned on?

Also note, this only works for Apache and not IIS. You need additional software installed on the server for IIS to recognize .htaccess files but even then I am not sure if it supports mod_rewrite commands.

Anyway, you should contact your hosting provider. This is actually outside the vBulletin software and they would be able to provide better support for their server setup and enabling features like this on your site.

[phdev]

Yes, I am successfully using other mod rewrite stuff. My site actually depends on it to have the SE friendly urls i do.

[Wayne Luke]

Then it is possible that those rules are superceding your new rule depending on the order they are executed in and the syntax of the rules. I would suggest talking to whoever set up the SE friendly URLs. Maybe there is something you need to change in them as well.

[phdev]

Here is my current .htaccess. I removed the suggestion made by our friend above because it didn't work for me.

Options All -Indexes

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php


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

Redirect 301 /login http://www.phenforum.com/amember/profile.php

[Wayne Luke]

You might get more help here:

http://forum.modrewrite.com/index.php

From what little I know, the following two lines should be doing what you want:

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