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August 28th, 2009, 08:16 AM

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401 on no-www domain only

I manage a tech support site, which has a mirrored private site for testing & development on the same server, and is protected by .htaccess

A few days ago I added following to .htaccess at the root level, to redirect everything on the domain from http:// to http://www

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sitename\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That worked perfectly for the public site; typing http://sitename.com will bring me to http://www.sitename.com. But when I type the http:// URL for the testbed, it throws this at me:

Code:

/401.shtml File not found, sorry. 404

If I type http://www, then it works fine. But that's not desirable, as I expected it would behave the same as the public site, which redirects with no problem.

Why does that happen for the testbed but not the public site, and how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

September 1st, 2009, 07:21 PM

cbiweb

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Please? I really need help with this.

September 5th, 2009, 08:27 PM

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Hello??

September 15th, 2009, 09:15 AM

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bump because I REALLY need an answer.

September 26th, 2009, 09:21 AM

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What does the testbed URL look like? This is very important.

Code:

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

Do you understand regular expressions or did you just copy this from somewhere? By the way, you really should have posted this in the apache forum, which is why you never got any help so far.

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