The code is ok, but you have to add the slash char after .com when typing your urls.

This works well, and rewrites :
bigskyfans.com/gallery

ahh, cool. Thanks. I guess I was testing by going to the actual url first, then deleting the www

It seems that the / after gallery is what is breaking it.

so.

bigskyfans.com/gallery works fine but bigskyfans.com/gallery/ doesn't work

Well, w<hen y type -http://bigskyfans.com/gallery/, i am redirected to -http://www.bigskyfans.com/gallery/ automatically, your method is fine, removing the "www." on "real" urls so to speak.

it works for me now too. Must have been a cache issue with my browser.

Thanks alot for this , it worked like a charm

Hi. Running PHPBB3 in a subfolder with advanced rewrite and zero dupe - neither of which seems to be the problem:) I redirected everything to www using

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

which worked fine with PHPBB2 on the same server. Now, everything works fine except for logging in. Whenever I try to log in, it redirects me back to the login page without logging me in. Same if I have it send me a new password or register a new username, just redirects me back to the same page. Removing those 2 lines fixes that problem (but I lose my redirect) so I don't think the SEO tools are the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks

It could just be because your phpBB config uses "thenewsboards.com" as domain name where it should be "www.thenewsboards.com", in the server settings.

As well, make sure you set your cookie domain to ".thenewsboards.com" (noticed the dot (".")), to allow sessions to be shared other the sub domains (www.thenewsboards.com being a genuine subdomain of thenewsboards.com).

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I added the code as suggested in method one then my whole .htaccess file looks like this:

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# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES            #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
# RewriteRule ^forums/index\.html$ /forums/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forums/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forums/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forums/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


I then uploaded the .htaccess file to my domain treatwidevision.us (root). Is that all I have to do? Can you please check my forums at www.treatwidevision.us/forums to see if things work correctly and if I missed anything? Thanks.

Please do not quote my message when you reply.

hi treatmekindly

i checked your forum
your htaccess rules for locking www doesn't work because:

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

you musr replace the word "example" with your domain and you must use .us instead of .com
you must use this code

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

Thanks. I fixed it. Can you please check it again? Does it work now?
I wonder if I understand this mod correctly. If I enter treatwidevision.us in the Internet Explorer browser or Firefox or Netscape, the URL that appears in the browser's Address box is -http://www.treatwidevision.us which is the same as when I enter -www.treatwidevision.us or http://treatwidevision.us in the browser's Address box, correct?

now its working
when your address doesn't have "www" the rewrite rules will redirect that address to proper page that contain "www"

for example:

-http://treatwidevision.us/forums/images-f24.html

will redirect to

-http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/images-f24.html

In the name of the god.
hi,
Now we can use redirects in cpanel for this (it is easy ).

hi my brothers my site seo problem is this

i want login administrator panel and other login but link problem here

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http://www.domain.netadm/index.php?sid=61b886ad3b2cde4c37f51cf7b94a2cc5

true

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http://www.domain.net/forum/adm/index.php?sid=61b886ad3b2cde4c37f51cf7b94a2cc5

my htaccess codes

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\domain\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.net$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

please help

i'm problem to solve my htaccess change this codes

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.net/forum/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

but this problem different now. i want login is administrator panel but problem is here;

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_formatted_filesize() in /home/adobetur/public_html/forum/includes/acp/acp_main.php on line 313

Looks like phpBB specific, is your forum up to date (all files ?)