Apache rewrite help please!

Teach

Hello

I hope you can help me please... having an absolute nightmare.

I have a strange problem with htaccess and the rewrite engine.

We recently moved over from a Zeus webserver to Apache, so this is all totally confusing!

We have many domains, but for this sample I have included two. My domain paths are:

/home/me/htdocs/www.domain.net/

and

/home/me/htdocs/www.domain2.co.uk/

My main .htaccess (the paste below) is located at /home/me/htdocs/.htaccess

The problem I'm getting is that if a URL is loaded such as http://domain.net/about it gets rewrote to http://domain.net/www.domain.net/about

In addition, I am able to call another domain from the first. For example, if I was on www.domain.net I could load www.domain2.co.uk via http://www.domain.net/www.domain2.co.uk

The rules I have:

# Error handling

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

# Rewrite engine

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.net$ [or]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.domain.net/$1 [L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain2\.co.uk$ [or]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2\.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.domain2.co.uk/$1 [L]

I then have another .htaccess in the "www.domain.net" folder that says

RewriteEngine off

Any ideas what I've missed? I've been trying to sort this out for days 🙁

Teach

Updated with more information; if you can, please help!

cgraz

What is it you would like your rewrites to do, exactly? It looks as if you're just redirecting a user who types domain.com or www.domain.com to www.domain.com - if that's the case, do you need to test if they typed www.domain.com to redirect them to the same place? I'm assuming you just want to ensure the www gets added in? But then you also have two domains here, so I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Could you elaborate?

I think the problem is that you don't have the http:// in the rewrite rule. I would try something like this (untested)

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.net [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.net/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain2.co.uk [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain2.co.uk/$1 [L]

Although as I mentioned, I'm not sure you need the first RewriteCond to begin with.

Teach

Hi there
Thanks for your reply, sorry for the late reply

All it's doing is making sure the site loads, as it's on a Virtual server. Without the htaccess, nothing loads - it's not to ensure 'www' is retained in the URL or so on.

It works, but as mentioned, if a URL is loaded such as http://domain.com/about, instead of remaining with /about, it's rewrote to http://domain.com/www.domain.com/about -- which is weird!