Evening all - fairly new to this, but I have the following file stucture on some webspace (helping a friend, not my site or structure!) public_html (www.domain.com) | |___directory1 | |___directory2 At the moment, the htaccess file has the following lines in it to push all requests to the domain name to directory1. IE: www.domain.com ->www.domain.com/directory1 This worked fine until he added directory 2. Now if he browses to www.domain.com/directory2 firefox throws an error: "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." which I am guessing is something to do with the htaccess file. I am no master on htaccess but I tried the following but it still doesn't work: Code: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/directory1/$1 [R=301,L] Any help kindly accepted
That rewrite doesn't even work if I upload it to a site... Is it terribly important for it to be a rewrite? i.e. for SEO purposes? I would just use a php redirect. Just make an index.php in the root dir and put: PHP: <?php header( 'Location: http://domain.com/directory1/' ) ; ?> That's how I always do these kinds of things, is there a reason why this redirect is in place in the first place that can't be fixed?
I don't really know why it has to be done in the htaccess file, I foolishly thought I would give a friend a hand (if only I knew it was the voodoo that is rewrite I would of run away!) I may try to push him the way you suggested as its easier and I understand it! Cheers
Do you want all requests which go to Directory2 to also be sent to Directory1? Using the rewrite above if I go to: /directory2/index.php I get forwarded to: /directory1/directory2/index.php without any loop errors. Have you got another .htaccess file in Directory1 ?
Thanks for that - no other htaccess anywhere (I had a good look as I was pulling my hair out!) In the end I persuaded him to dump the htaccess and go with a PHP redirect, so its now happy (and a lot easier for me!!)
Still doable in PHP though. Code: <? Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" ); ?> But yeh, I would change to this code as Google will find that site as 302.
