301 no longer works?

[wheelie34]

Hi

For the last year and a bit this code has worked perfectly

RewriteEngine on
# redirect non-www to www subdomain.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) [domain.com...] [R=301,L]

My host had issues 3 days ago and now it wont work at all?

I have noticed, prior to the "issues" they had during ftp you could not see the .htaccess file (I understand why) but now I can.

After much reading here I still cant get it to work, I have tried adding Options +FollowSymLinks that doesnt help either.

Help anyone?

Added: the above code works perfect on one of my other servers?

[zCat]

Sound like your host has screwed up their Apache configuration and it no longer recognizes .htaccess files (or they're switched off the mod_rewrite module or something).

[wheelie34]

Hi zCat

I have other rules in the .htaccess that still work, such as

^folder$ [domain...] [R=301,L]

and I tell it to run php on some html pages, all which still work fine its just the non to www that stopped

[jdMorgan]

Your host has misconfigured your server, somehow. Your code looks good, and as you say, it works in another server. I'd suggest you take this up with them.

Jim

[wheelie34]

Hi Jim

mmmm I just got a reply from the host they say it works in firefox, and it does! but not in ie6 any ideas

If you want to see for yourself pm me and I will give you the URL

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:43 pm (utc) on Oct. 2, 2006]
[edit reason] Minor edit for TOS #3 [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

Have you flushed your IE Temporary Internet files in Internet Options? You could just be seeing a cached copy of the un-redirected page.

If that doesn't help, I'd suggest logging into Windows under a different administrator account, and deleting the file
C:\Documents and Settings\<user-name>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat

This file will not be visible if you are still logged-in with your usual account. You will also have to set Windows to "Show hidden files" to see it. IE will re-create this file when you next start it. This file often
gets bloated, leading to system slow-downs, or corrupted, leading to 'strange' problems in IE.

Jim

[wheelie34]

Hi Jim

Thanks for your help, it was not the .dat file, my host has stated I need a @ A record in my DNS so I have just set that up and now its fine.

Whats a @ A record for anyway?

[jdMorgan]

That's a shorthand notation used by some DNS control panel applications -- None of which I've used.

Is it the case that your www subdomain was not previously-defined in your DNS Zone file? That's the only thing I can think of, and I haven't yet figured out why there would be a difference between IE and Firefox in the handling of such a situation. You might try testing again, and make note of what domain+URL you type, and what domain+URL the browsers actually try to fetch. That might be revealing.

Jim