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.htaccess help

by marmalade
3 replies
Hey,

Can someone please help me with making a .htaccess file that does these 2 things:
In order to preserve page rank, I believe this is beneficial, but not sure. Anyway, I'd like to have it this way, so visitors always land on http://www.example.com

The code below does this, but there's a problem. It only works on the primary domain on my hosting account (hostgator). If I try to put in on an addon domain, i.e. a separate domain name but on the same hosting account, it doesn't work. It screws up my main domain.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1[R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Anyone know how to make this work on an addon domain in a hostgator account?

Btw, if you want to swipe the code above, feel free. It's pretty nice.
#htaccess
  • Profile picture of the author marmalade
    I resolved this. I think it's working because on the addon domain I have index.PHP but on the main domain I have index.HTML.
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  • Profile picture of the author olalinks
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    • Profile picture of the author K Meier
      Originally Posted by olalinks View Post

      Are you serious ?
      It's too simple.
      U can use html redirect code
      Like this :


      Content=5 : means your site will be redirected in 5 seconds
      url=: means the target site .


      Paste this code to your <head> ///// code here /// </head>
      Meta redirects are the most unreliable ones, as they can be interrupted by the browser. Also you're not telling any crawlers or search engine that it should be a permanent 301 redirect.
      Another alternative would be a PHP redirect, however .htaccess redirects are the most reliable ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author micksss
    I agree 301 redirect in .htaccess is the recommended SEO way of doing this.
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