.htaccess file won't work

Basq · 21-01-2008 11:33pm #1

Have my new blog set up at http://basquille.net but would like a .htaccess file in place in order to force people to use http://www.basquille.net.

My .htaccess file is in my 'public_html' folder and is as follows:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^basquille.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.basquille.net/$1 [L,R=301]

When i tried this, I got '500 Internal Server Error' so I removed it temporarily untl I fix it.

Any ideas?

cgarvey · 22-01-2008 12:38am

File permissions (readable by whatever user the web server runs as)?
Are you Allowed to Override by server config?

Basq · 22-01-2008 12:44am

Unsure about that.. how would I check?

EDIT: The redirect is somewhat working now but it's moving in between http://basquille.net and http://www.basquille.net until I get a redirection error.

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

louie · 22-01-2008 9:26am

give this a try:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

# redirect all other domains to www.basquille.net
RewriteCond &#37;{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.basquille\.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.basquille.net/$1 [R=301,L,NC]

#redirect index.php or htm to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ .*/index\.(htm|html|php)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(htm|html|php)$ /$1 [R=301,L,NC]

Basq · 22-01-2008 9:53am

Cheers louie.

Tried that and it's the same as above.

Have left it in place to show it's effect:

In Firefox, it seems to redirect between http://basquille.net and http://www.basquille.net until a redirection error occurs.

In IE, it trys to open http://basquille.net just stalls at the 'opening page' stages until a 'Cannot find server'' error is displayed.

PS - am using CPanel X as my administration panel just in case someone knows of an easier way in that.

louie · 22-01-2008 10:04am

You must have something else in place.
Create a new index.php file (blank) and try it again.

louie · 22-01-2008 10:11am

this is what I got in FF - way too much - some other pages or feeds are creating the problem:

http://basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 0

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:21 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Location: http://www.basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3548
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 436

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:21 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3549
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 2707

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:24 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3550
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 3232

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:24 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3551
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 3741

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3552
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 4276

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3553
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 4960

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:26 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3554
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 5713

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:27 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3555
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 6264

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:27 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3556
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 7295

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:28 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3557
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
http://www.basquille.net/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.basquille.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PHPSESSID=defb18b4321a6d98f70239053d8f8b8e
X-navid: dd8-76826e
X-browser-timestamp: 9064

HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:30 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
its-insert-response: Error (Input mode is set to 'GET' but no variables are passed!)
its-status: enabled
its-version: 2.3.0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://basquille.net/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Location: http://basquille.net/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
X-fetchid: 3558
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Basq · 22-01-2008 10:26am

Cheers louie.

Put a 'index.php' in place with just the message 'Down for maintenance'.

Seemed to work when I go to http://basquille.net (it now redirects.. but unsure of why there's a problem with my index.php). It's a simple enough WordPress.

PS - is it possible it could be plugins on my Wordpress sidebar which reference http://basquille.net?

louie · 22-01-2008 10:36am

remove things you have one by one and check it out until it works.
you have links to pages like this:

http://basquille.net/page.rss where it should be http://www.basquille.net/page.rss

so fix them first

Basq · 22-01-2008 10:56am

Cheers louie.. you're a lifesaver!

Figured out my problem.. all my links to images and such were leading with http://www.basquille.net although my wordpress and blog address in WordPress admin were both http://basquille.net - whoops - all my own fault!

Thanks again!

louie · 22-01-2008 8:52pm

you are welcome.

.htaccess file won't work

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