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301 redirect non www to www but preserve previous rule which removes index.php
 
megamonk
Posted: 11 January 2011 12:02 AM   [ Ignore ]
Joined: 2009-10-29
11 posts

i currently have this in my htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|images|themes|admin|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] 

this basically strips out the index.php

now i need to redirect all non www to www url so i tried adding this

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

it works fine except that the index.php is added after the url whenever a non www url is typed.

ex:

mysite.com = http://www.mysite.com
mysite.com/about = http://www.mysite.com/index.php/about

i want to remove that “index.php”. any ideas?
 
Daniel Moore
Posted: 11 January 2011 12:28 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Joined: 2008-05-09
234 posts

Make sure you redirect to the “www.” part first, then process the removal of the index.php afterward.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(/)?(.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301]  
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|images|themes|admin|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [R=301,L] 


Don’t put an L next to R=301 when forcing a redirect to “www.”, or no more rules will be processed.

Also, add the R=301 to the removal of the index.php, so that search engines will remember not to try the index.php next time.

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Using .htaccess to remove index.php
 
scherman
Posted: 26 August 2011 11:23 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
Joined: 2011-05-23
78 posts

How do you know if it worked?
 
tison
Posted: 01 May 2012 08:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
Joined: 2009-11-07
12 posts

Guys,

This is the final code I used - this not only redirects index.php, but also redirects non-www requests to www.  (if you’re using non-www, simply remove the middle rules):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]