301 Redirect help

[Connie]

I thnk this should belong in the clients helping clients but there is not a clear area to post in.

Jag just a suggestion there should be a html section some where.

Any way heres the problem.
I have a 301 redirect problem.I need to redirect http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com. This is a Search Engine Optimazation issue.

I have tried a lot of different redirects. The only one that actually does
what I need is: ( by the way I need the redirect to show in the headers as well as redirecting to the page. )

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

The above works great until a visitor places an order.
They arrive at the first page of the shopping cart as they should.
http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/autocart.pl

There they need to click to the next page for the secure cart to enter CC info.
https://secure.domain.com/cgi-bin/autocart.pl

Using the above redirect when the customer clicks to the next page they are
returned to https://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/autocart.pl which of course is an error page.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Vin DSL]

I'm in a time crunch, Connie, but...

On face value, I don't know what you need all that stuff for. I had to do a 301 a while back. This is all I used:

Redirect 301 /odp.php http://www.lenon.com/modules.php?name=ODP

Using that as a model, I think all you would need is:

Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

[Ron]

I don't have time to test this right now, Connie, but maybe you could try something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^https://secure.domain.com(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Just add something like that line before yours... There is an implicit AND between the conditions... so both have to be true to be rewritten.

So if it's NOT your secure domain AND
it's NOT www.domain.com
make it www.domain.com

Good luck.

[Connie]

Hey Vin and Ron. Thanks for the attempts to help.

Vin your first example will only work with relative links within the site.
You can also use Redirect permanent rather than Redirect 301.
I do use some redirects for pages that have been renamed.

I have tried to use that to Redirect permanent /http://domain.com http://www.domain.com

The header still display a 200 code rather than a 301.

I haven't tried this but I suspect that redirect permanent /index.htm http://www.comain.com
would work for internal relative links and that would change the http://www.domain.com/index.htm
to http://www.domain.com

Tried your second example. The only page I can access is the page I use for my
personal home page. Any link I clicked on resulted in a dialog box that
said the page was not accessible and something else about cookies.

Ron,

I really thought your solution would work due to the clause you added. I ended up
with the same problem as the code I originally posted.

When trying to go from the unsecure page to the secure page This is the error
message on the page.

>> You are missing a hidden field, possible mis-configuration. <<
The error logs show this error:

>> /home/domain.com/public_html/.htaccess: RewriteCond: bad argument line '%{HTTP_host}!^www\\.domain\\.com$'\n <<

>> http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/autocart.pl still still shows in the address bar <<

I appreciate both of your attempts and suggestions to solve this problem.

Hope you both had a great weekend since it's almost over.