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My site is set up to not use the www.

Using the code in the documentation to remove the index.php works fine.

However, when I add the necessary rules to redirect the www to non-www and then go to a URL with the www in it, the index.php is always added.

So, http://mysite/blog works and the index.php is removed, but if I go to http://www.mysite/blog I am redirected to http://mysite/index.php/blog.

Here are the rules I am using:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

        RewriteEngine On

        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
   
        # Trying to remove www
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
        RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
  
</IfModule>

The www rewrite portion was taken from the HTML5 boilerplate.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Hello jezpeters,

Thank you for asking your question.

We do not support the removal of www, but I would like to see if we can get this to work.

One thing to make sure of is that in the Control Panel and in the config.php that you are consistent with the use or non-use of WWW.

It would also be helpful to see the Apache logs, wondering if anything comes through when this is going on.

Cheers,

Hi Shane, thanks for the reply.

All the URL’s in the control panel are non-www, and the one in the config.php is also non-www. I’ve had a look at the logs, and there is nothing related to the site, just some 404’s related to some other sites of mine.

Jez

Hi jezpeters,

Try re-ordering your htaccess rules like so:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

        RewriteEngine On

        # Trying to remove www
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
        RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
   
 
</IfModule>

Mike

That’s sorted it, brilliant - thanks very much Mike.

Any time :D

Hey there jezpeters,

I am glad that Mike was able to help! Thanks Mike.

That’s a good one to note.

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,