So you are indeed using :

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.dogs4sale\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.dogs4sale.net/forum/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

In the forum/ dir's .htaccess, correct ?

if so, try using :

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.dogs4sale\.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.dogs4sale.net/forum/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

I'm not 100% positive it will fix the issue, but it could.
Please note that you should still keep the original www prefix redirection in your domain's root .htaccess and implement this one in the forum/'s one.

If it does not make it, please post here you full phpBB3's .htaccess.

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Hi,

just a small note: You can also do it without the domain name in .htaccess which is a bit more convenient when you have different sites because you can just copy & paste the code:

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

And when you have a subdomain called subdomain which should be available with

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http://subdomain.example.com

and not

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http://www.subdomain.example.com

just add this:

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

Have a nice weekend!
Wolfgang

Very true, but I kind of like to specify a bit more this kind of matter

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DCZ

In your earlier post

Please note that you should still keep the original www prefix redirection in your domain's root .htaccess and implement this one in the forum/'s one.

What is best practice?
Should I have an htaccess in the site root AND an htaccess in my forums root?

Thanks.
Jim

There is not real best practice, you just need to implement this in the domain's root .htaccess as well as in any other directory using an .htaccess and starting mod_rewrite.

So, if your forum is installed in your domain's root, you don't have much choice, if it is installed in a sub directory, then you can either implement the forum .htaccess there or in the domain's root. In such case, if you do not implement the forum .htaccess in the domain's root (and this is only when you need and want to), then you'll need to place the www prefix redirection in both.

As well, note that our latest mod rewrite does generate the proper lines of code for this matter in the .htaccess, it is just left commented because it's the type of thing that need to be implemented once the .htaccess is fully functional, it looks like :

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# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO FORCE CANONICAL DOMAIN
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

but with the proper domain name and path for your setup. So you can just remove the # before RewriteCond and RewriteRule to uncomment, should work

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