is it work with phpbb 3.0.1 ?
my htaccess code now is:

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RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mobile4persian.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mobile4persian.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://www.mobile4persian.com/forum/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^m4pshop.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.m4pshop.net$
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://www.m4shop.net/commerce [R=301,L]

but it open with and without www
my site:http://mobile4persian.com

m4pshop.net does not seems to be online.

So, if you have an .htaccess is located in a sub dir, with this .htaccess in the domain's root, you need to implement the www prefix redirection in the forum's .htaccess as well. So far it's working with mobile4persian.com, but not with mobile4persian.com/forum/

this .htaccess file is located at root not forum folder.
and my server have 2 domain that m4pshop.net is not used yet.

so can u plz say what shoud be exactly the .htaccess file?

Professional wrote:this .htaccess file is located at root not forum folder.

I know, that's why you need to implement the www prefix redirection in the one located in the forum dir as well.

yes that's right.
but now what shoud i do?
i am confused.

Add something like :

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www\.mobile4persian\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mobile4persian.com/forum/ [R=301,L]

In you forum's .htaccess.

But you may want to install some of our SEO mods for phpBB3, the zero duplicate would perform this redirection by default.

ye i know.
but i have a scroll that show the last posts and is very important for me.
i want to know that this system will working after install the seo mods?(that links will change)
i asked my question also here but dear dcz looks so busy:
http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/advance ... t2352.html

I answered

tnx admin

i finally did it and locked www in url and index like here:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^forum.mobile4persian.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.forum.mobile4persian.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mobile4persian.com/forum/index.php [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mobile4persian\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mobile4persian.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mobile4persian.com/forum/index.php [QSA,L,R=301]
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

now my question is how to link my forum?
for example i want to link mobile to my forum:
-www.mobile4persian.com

or

-www.mobile4persian.com/forum

or

-www.mobile4persiancom/forum/index.php

tnx

These are not good, because you do redirect every request without the www prefix to the forum index, it could as well partly explain your other matter, in case many url where indexed without the www prefix before you did put this up.

Use :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mobile4persian\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mobile4persian.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It's enough for all cases.

Then, for your index redirection, I do not encourage you do it, there is no real point to install phpBB in a sub directory if you do not want the domain' root to be used. You'd better set up a home page (even basic) for he root directory if you want to keep this structure, you'd start to build PR on it for when you'd want to dev the domain root level a bit in your site.

About linking, example.com/forum/ and example.com/forum/index.php are duplicate, so you'd bnetter choose one or the other and only link to it. Again our mod rewrite with the zero duplicate do take care about this duplicate as well : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/index.php

Keeping this structure, you'd as well need to link the domain root level(www.example.com/).

tnx i'll test it.

Hi admin
I have plesk control panel and it have not the redirect option

I have a new cms on a sub folder that named “en”

How can I lock www and index.php for it to have finally this address

-www.toranj-gem.com/en/index.php

i dont want it in subdomain i want it to be like your site

so can u plz say what shoud be the .htaccess file for this problem?

tnx

The www prefix redirection is working for all directories in the domain when it is implemented in the domain's root .htaccess and for dirs that do not have a .htaccess using mod_rewrite in them.

In all case, forcing the index is a separate matter.


So in your case, if you do not have a .htaccess in the en/ dir, you'll need to use something like :

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

for the www prefix, and then :

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RewriteRule ^en/?$ /en/index.php [R=301,L]

or :

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RewriteRule ^en/?$ http://www.toranj-gem.com/en/index.php [R=301,L]

to force index.php in the en/ root.

It's pretty similar if you are using a .htaccess in the en/ dir, just need to set path properly, but you'll need to repeat the www prefix redirection it it.

++

dcz wrote:I thought it could be wise to start talking a bit about the www in URL.
Second method : URL !=www.example.com.

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

This has always worked for me. But now I'm working to convert my Forum to phpbb3 (premod of course) and this time I'm moving the Forum from the Root to my /forum folder.

I did this on my test server and everything is working. I also moved my .htaccess file to the /forum folder as well just so I can keep it seperate from my primary root .htaccess file.

So, I modified the www redirect and I'm using the following:

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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 very good with ReWrite so I just plopped /forum/ into the original and tadaa!!! Everything worked. If I type in:
http://dogs4sale.net/forum/first-forum

it's redirected to:
http://www.dogs4sale.net/forum/first-fo ... ic-t1.html

Life is good... kinda

Problem
The only issue I have is if I type in:
http://dogs4sale.net/forum

I get a 404. For some reason if I leave out the trailing / on the end of forum it does not redirect to http://www.dogs4sale.net/forum/

Thoughts?

I'm sure this is a SIMPLE fix but I'm still stuck. Plz note - this is all happening on my TEST server so if you try to hit http://www.dogs4sale.net it's still running my original phpbb2 site in the root folder.

Thnx!