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Stuart
Posted: 03 July 2012 12:12 PM   [ Ignore ]
Joined: 2009-12-10
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An SEO company has requested I provide 301 redirects for a site I worked on, but when I input the URl information the browser can’t complete the task. More specifically they want the mydomain/index.asp, mydomain/index.cfm, .html, .htm, etc. to redirect to http://www.mydomain.com .

This is what Firefox tells me - Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Does this have something to do with rewriting the .htaccess file for EE? Is there anyway to correct this?

Thanks
 
MadWebDesigns
Posted: 03 July 2012 02:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
Joined: 2012-06-12
149 posts

Hi Stuart,

What version of EE are you using?

Are you removing the index.php using .htaccess?

Thank you,

Mike
 
Stuart
Posted: 03 July 2012 02:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Version 2.

Yes I’m removing the index.php using .htaccess. I’ve tried two separate methods:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine On 
# Removes index.php 
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] 
# If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing 
# make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
 </IfModule> 

and

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond $1 !^(system|themes|index\.php|admin\.php).*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [NC,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [OR] 

the remainder of the file looks similar to this for each index.aspx, index.htm, etc:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.asp$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.com\/" [R=301,L] 

Thanks
 
PressEnter Creative
Posted: 03 July 2012 02:41 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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This problem cannot be troubleshot if you don’t include the full contents of your .htaccess file.

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Stuart
Posted: 03 July 2012 02:51 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
Joined: 2009-12-10
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond $1 !^(system|themes|index\.php|admin\.php).*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [NC,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [OR]

AddType video/ogg .ogv
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain.com\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain.com\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain.com\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain.com\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain.com\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain.com\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain.com\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.shtml$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain.com\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.asp$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain.com\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.aspx$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain.com\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain.com\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.cfm$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain.com\.com\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain.com\.com$
RewriteRule ^index\.pl$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain.com\.com\/" [R=301,L] 
 
PressEnter Creative
Posted: 03 July 2012 03:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.com\/" [R=301,L] 

You’re stuck in a loop because this rule says “if the address ends in a slash, redirect to mydomain.com/.” As such, it’s going over and over and over again…

My suggestion would be re-writing your rules with this syntax:

Redirect 301 /path/on/old/site.html /path/to/new/page/ 

You can then add other rules that will remove or add the trailing slash, and remove or add the www, depending on your preferences.

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@NickBenson | Senior Front End Developer at PressEnter | Twin Cities ExpressionEngine User Group | EE Pro Network Member
 
pixelbaker
Posted: 03 July 2012 03:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
Joined: 2011-11-30
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See, if you go to mydomain.com/test, it will be redirected to mydomain.com/index.php/test, then to http://www.mydomain.com/test which, is something EE doesn’t understand.

EE only understand mydomain.com index.php/test, which should be redirected from mydomain.com/test

To solve this, the index.php removal code should be in the end, and put all your SEO redirection code before it.

Besides, you have piles of same codes for SEO redirection, what’s the point of that?

It’s better to give specific requirements for redirection if the list is not long, say index.cfm, index.asp etc.

Besides, if the site don’t have such URLs before, it make no sense to redirect them because nobody will reach them, including search engines.

 
 
Stuart
Posted: 03 July 2012 03:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
Joined: 2009-12-10
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pixelbaker

Moving the index.php removal code worked.

Thanks