Redirect issue [SOLVED]

mattwa · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 5

Maybe silly, but this had me going for a while.

.htaccess wouldn't work right for me. Redirects to .php pages were going to nonexistent files in the /usr/cgi-bin directory, www redirects were inconsistent, and forums were generating 404 errors.

I was this close to contacting my hosting company (Hostway) to see if they had done something bizzare with mod-rewrite when I took one more look and found the culprit - there was an .htaccess file in my /forum directory.

Deleted that file, and everything is golden now. Hope this helps someone.

dcz · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 10:25 am Post subject: Re: Redirect issue [SOLVED]

And welcome Very Happy

Just one thing, if you had an .htaccess in your forum folder, does it means you where previously using another URL rewriting solution ?

If it's the case, it most likely mean you should do something in order to properly HTTP 301 redirect all these and keep your previous ranking in SERPs.

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mattwa · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 5

Thanks. And thanks for all these mods, I'm using several of them now Smile

No, the problem is likely that I mistakenly uploaded the file to the wrong folder at some point. My FTP client doesn't allow me to view hidden files (need to get a new FTP client) so I didn't find it until I logged in with a shell account and did an ls -la.

I'm using the mixed-rewrite, the title optimizer, the meta-keyword generator, and the zero dupes, all working perfectly.