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#35467 htaccess maker - Redirect www and non-www addresses not available?

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Latest post by Chacapamac on Monday, 05 July 2021 09:19 CDT

Friday, 02 July 2021 19:39 CDT

Chacapamac

I just install a test site in a sub-domain with its own public_html using your great infos on my post #35404.

It work perfectly triple Thank You on that....

Redirect ON, Clean Url and I use (as I always do) an htacces mafe with your Htacces Maker.

In the Htacces Maker you have the “Redirect www and non-www addresses” settings. Curiously, I’m not able to acces any other scrolling options than “Do not redirect” - No other choices available ?

Do I have to add the code to the htacces Maker custom code input or manually to the file ?

I have a set of rules that I use that take care of the www redirection and the 301 permanent redirect...

Maybe cause by the sub-domain situation, I’m not sure.

I dont think its really important just for testing anyway.....

Good Day Nicholas!

Sunday, 04 July 2021 11:40 CDT

nicholas

You have set the $live_site in your configuration.php file. This causes this setting to become unavailable to prevent silly mistakes.

For example, if your setting there is “https://www.example.com” you can't do www to non-www redirection as this would lead to an infinite redirection loop. The .htaccess would redirect from www.example.com to example.com and then Joomla would redirect from example.com to www.example.com. This would be going on and on until your browser would give up after 20 redirection attempts.

In this example the non-www to www redirection would also make no sense since Joomla would already be doing that.

DO NOT set the $live_site in configuration.php. There are several implication when you do that. It breaks things such as Joomla's Enforce SSL option, it breaks non-www to www redirections, it may even break several forms on your site. It's an all around bad idea and I'm surprised that Joomla has neither realised the implications nor has it taken steps to remove it.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Monday, 05 July 2021 09:19 CDT

Chacapamac

I’m so habit to set that on my sites, yeah weird Joomla didn’t trash that configuration.php setting?

Thanks Nicholas, Fix & Solved!

Good day to Akeeba!

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