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Redirect non-www to www and removed index.php?,  now www is getting error 404’s but non-www works 100%. If I flip www to non-www and remove index.php? then non-www gets 404’s and www works 100%.

What is going on here?

htaccess:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.*)
      RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{http_host}/$1 [R=301,L]

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

I have removed the “?” from index.php, same results.
I have changed [L] to [PT], same results.

Also if this is posted in the wrong section would a mod please move to appropriate area?

Here’s an alternative to force www from html5 boilerplate htaccess that might work:

# Option 2: rewrite example.com → <a href="http://www.example.com">http://www.example.com</a>
# Be aware that the following might not be a good idea if you use "real"
# subdomains for certain parts of your website.

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ <a href="http://www.%{http_host}%{request_uri}">http://www.%{http_host}%{request_uri}</a> [R=301,L]

Thanks for the suggestion. Still getting error 404’s on the http://www.domain.com with those changes, but domain.com works fine.

ok, so I figured it out after 1 week of digging. I hope others find this post useful

The big changes I made are different then what was suggest by the EE team.

So I added index.php to the General Config on EE “Name of your site’s index page” = index.php.

Then I added “DirectoryIndex index.php” to my .htaccess
Then I added a command to add a slash to the end of any url

And that is it. Completely works fine now, no errors on either http://www.domain.com or domain.com. Google Fetch is happy and that makes me happy.

So here is my .htaccess file…if you use this be sure to remove http://www.domain.com and use your own domain, also if you are not redirecting to www you will have to use domain.com.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
DirectoryIndex index.php

#add slash to end URL
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !example.php
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

#www to non-www
#    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)
#    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{http_host}/$1 [R=301,L]
#non-www to www
      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.*)
      RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{http_host}/$1 [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]

I hope this helps someone else out there because I was so frustrated with this and not much help out there. I found a few crumbs here and there that finally lead me to this working fix. Although not what EE wants.