SEO Redirect of www

[slic535]

I updated from 6.1.9 to 6.1.10 and my website isn't redirecting directknifesales.com to www.directknifesales.com. How can this be done? I have been seeing something with the .htaccess file but everything I try doesn't seem to work. do you know what the coding is to make it work?

Edited September 14, 2017 by slic535

[bsmither]

CubeCart's upgrade procedure replaces files with new files if those new files exist. So, the .htaccess file if it already existed, should not have been overwritten with files from the CC6110 package.

Which means if the redirect via .htaccess doesn't happen with CC6110, then the redirect via .htaccess was not being done in CC619 either.

Which means if there was a redirect happening, it was being managed by some other process.

Whatever, Stack Overflow has a few good suggestions for the .htaccess file (if your hosting account uses a web server that respects .htaccess directives).
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12050590/redirect-non-www-to-www-in-htaccess

[slic535]

I tried every link that was on the page and nothing worked. any ideas?

[bsmither]

Sorry, but if the best suggestions put forward in that discussion isn't doing what is supposed to happen, then maybe something else is interfering.

What statements did you choose to add to the .htaccess file?

[keat]

Try this

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourdomain\.com$

[slic535]

thank you for trying. I will have to submit a ticket and see what can be done.

 

I tried this and it didn't work

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourdomain\.com$

I chose everything on the page and tried it. nothing had any effect and if it did it doubled the www.name.comwww.name.com. I think it has to do with the coding in the file and a file in the admin htaccess file that restricts it but I don't know because I am not fluent on the php.

[ayz1]

I've just tried it and directknifesales.com is redirecting to www.directknifesales.com

[slic535]

I switched from php 5.4 to 5.6. would that have something to do with it?

if you got it to work where did you put the coding?

##### START CubeCart .htaccess #####

## File Security
<FilesMatch "\.(htaccess)$">
 Order Allow,Deny
 Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

#### Apache directory listing rules ####
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
IndexIgnore *

#### Rewrite rules for SEO functionality ####
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

    RewriteBase /
 
  ######## START v4 SEO URL BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ########
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
  RewriteRule cat_([0-9]+)(\.[a-z]{3,4})?(.*)$ index.php?_a=category&cat_id=$1&%1 [NC]

  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
  RewriteRule prod_([0-9]+)(\.[a-z]{3,4})?$ index.php?_a=product&product_id=$1&%1 [NC]

  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
  RewriteRule info_([0-9]+)(\.[a-z]{3,4})?$ index.php?_a=document&doc_id=$1&%1 [NC]

  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
  RewriteRule tell_([0-9]+)(\.[a-z]{3,4})?$ index.php?_a=product&product_id=$1&%1 [NC]

  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
  RewriteRule _saleItems(\.[a-z]+)?(\?.*)?$ index.php?_a=saleitems&%1 [NC,L]
  ######## END v4 SEO URL BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ########

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html?$ index.php?seo_path=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

## Default store 404 page
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

##### END CubeCart .htaccess #####
<FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|ico|css|js|svg)$">
  ErrorDocument 404 "<html></html>
</FilesMatch>
##### END CubeCart .htaccess #####

[ayz1]

Well, it's not redirecting now so you have changed something.

Try adding

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

below

IndexIgnore *

I've edited this to remove the https

Edited September 14, 2017 by ayz1

[slic535]

still nothing. I left the coding in it to see if you see something else

[ayz1]

It's working now.

[ayz1]

Still some strange behaviour. Can you check the code you have added and make sure you change the https to http

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

[slic535]

when I look at the .com it shows .com but when I touch the address bar it changes to http://www.  I never noticed it change. Ok is it working now!

[ayz1]

Yes, seems to be working OK now.