i'm sure this is simple, but my head is being stupid today

i have a site with two domains - if you use one domain (d1, the address of that folder on the server), the SSIs don't work, but if you use the other domain (d2, which is really a symlink to the folder on the server), they work just fine...i have no control over the server, so there's nothing i can tweak there...i tried using an .htaccess redirect any requests for d1 to d2, but that either kills it or simply does nothing or generates a redirect loop...i've tried (each individually, of course, and with some minor variations on each):

redirect / http://www.new.com/

redirect http://www.old.com/ http://www.new.com/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.new.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://www.new.com/

1/5/2009 10:11:06 AM

try this

Quote :

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

1/5/2009 10:18:27 AM

^ nothing happens...it doesn't break anything, but nothing actually changes

1/5/2009 10:32:17 AM

i should have tested it first.. try this and see if it redirects http://www.old.com

Quote :

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

1/5/2009 10:41:56 AM

^ still doesn't do anything

1/5/2009 11:00:17 AM

Try this:

Quote :

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

Or if you have access to your apache/server/error logs, look in it to see what rewrite is doing.

[Edited on January 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM. Reason : htaccess can be a bitch sometimes]

1/5/2009 11:25:25 AM

^ that one gave me an "internal server error"...i'm kinda glad to know this isn't super simple, because then i'd feel dumb...at the same time, i want it to work

thanks for all of the suggestions thus far

1/5/2009 12:34:33 PM

Try this now, lol:

Quote :

"Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(http://)(www\.)old.com(/) [NC] RewriteRule ^(http://)(www\.)old.com(.*)$ http://www.new.com$3 [R=301,L]"

Make sure it's the first thing in your .htaccess and that you have the right permissions on it.

[Edited on January 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM. Reason : Damnit this one has to work, lol.]

1/6/2009 3:40:43 PM

bump

7/6/2010 9:50:30 PM

thxu

okay, more of me sucking at mod_rewrite

so let's say i have a URL string:

http://www.mysite.com/?month=5&day=10&type=icecream

http://www.mysite.com/5/10/icecream

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^?month=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)&day=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)&type=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ $1/$2/$3/ [L]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(?month=[a-zA-Z0-9]+)(&day=[a-zA-Z0-9]+)(&type=[a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ $1/$2/$3/ [L]

7/6/2010 9:51:21 PM

lemme guess, you're doing this with joomla

7/6/2010 10:08:40 PM

gross, joomla

I know Google links are for dbags, but there are seriously a million resources out there for this

http://www.google.com/search?q=seo+friendly+urls+htaccess

7/6/2010 10:32:26 PM

no, not joomla...i've never used joomla

yeah, i can google as well as most others, but i'm still making bupkiss...i figure there's something tiny i'm missing, so i was hoping someone with more experience than i might be able to take a look at and point it out to me

7/7/2010 6:47:48 AM

If you'd doing it on the servers I think you're doing it on, mod_rewrite is disabled.

7/7/2010 10:33:58 AM

^ dreamhost?

[Edited on July 7, 2010 at 10:39 AM. Reason : .]

7/7/2010 10:39:47 AM

^^^^^^ what you're trying to do doesn't really make sense to me -- are you sure you don't want the opposite of what you said? i.e. use mod_rewrite to turn the friendly url into /index.php?bla=1&ble=2 etc

7/7/2010 10:49:55 AM

^ yeah, i'm sure i know what i want to do

the URLs are currently "ugly" (&month=5&day=10&type=icecream) and i want to make them "pretty" (5/10/icecream)

7/7/2010 10:53:17 AM

^^^ CoE webservers.

7/7/2010 11:15:55 AM

nope, definitely dreamhost

anyone with dreamhost know if there might be something that's keeping me from doing the mod_rewrite (assuming what i've got up there is correct, i mean)

7/7/2010 11:20:27 AM

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Mod_rewrite

7/7/2010 11:26:41 AM

^ not quite what i was looking for, but a linked page gave me this:

Quote :

"You can use the ampersand character in the target redirect however without some special running gear you can not use an ampersand in the source URL. Definitely inconvenient!"

7/7/2010 1:13:32 PM