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#14120 URL Redirection - site in folder to URL

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Latest post by klementz2 on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 16:33 CST

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 14:22 CST

klementz2

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? URL redirection
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes, URL redirection page, htaccess page
Joomla! version: (2.5.8)
PHP version: (5.2.17 or 5.3.18)
MySQL version: (5.5.28-log)
Host: (bluehost)
Admin Tools version: (2.4.2)

Description of my issue:

My main domain is www.clements.ca. I also have www.coinzoo.net which is in a folder named coinzoo. The coinzoo domain is all set up and working fine, with its own copy of admintools, etc.

Problem is, the site can still be accessed from www.clements.ca/coinzoo. I need to prevent this, and have tried many different things.

In the URL Redirection feature of admin tools in the clements.ca site, I have set up and entry with Existing URL = http://www.coinzoo.net and New URL = coinzoo. It does not work.

Any ideas?

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 15:59 CST

nicholas

No, this will never work. It has to do with the way Apache, redirections and Joomla! work.

When you request a URL, Apache first checks if a directory or file under that name exists. If it does (as in your case), it will serve it.

If the requested file or directory does not exist, Apache normally throws an error page. Here comes the .htaccess file you put in your site's root. It tell Apache "dude, if you can't find a file/folder by that name, send it to Joomla!'s index.php". And that's what Apache does. Joomla! does some pre-processing on that URL and then sends it to Admin Tools to do the redirection.

Therefore, as long as you have that directory present in your main site there's not a cat's chance in hell that you will ever be able to get Admin Tools (or any other Joomla! component/plugin) to do a redirection for the simple reason that Apache will never, ever route your request through Joomla!'s index.php.

There are various .htaccess techniques to achieve your result, but it's well beyond the kind of service I can provide through this ticket system.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 13 November 2012 16:33 CST

klementz2

Okay, I was afraid it would be something like that. Thanks for the response.

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