Topic: Troubles with .htaccess rewrite module - non www to www

[Mikanas]

Hi all!

I am facing some troubles with .htaccess file.

I am trying to force all non www traffic to www instead. My website is http://www.autojeesi.fi

I do not use index.shtml anymore as a first page, instead I want to use http:www.autojeesi.fi/auton-vuokraus.shtml as a primary first page of my site.

So this is why my.htaccess file looks like this for now. I think there might be something that is not compatible with the rewrite rules, but dont know what.

DirectoryIndex auton-vuokraus.shtml
Options All -Indexes

Redirect 301 /index.shtml /auton-vuokraus.shtml
Redirect 301 /yritys.shtml /autovuokraamo.shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddType text/html;charset=utf-8 .shtml
Options Includes
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

FileETag MTime Size
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "access plus 86400 seconds"

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 86400 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 86400 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 86400 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 86400 seconds"

ErrorDocument 404 /error404.shtml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

I have searched hours and hours the reason why I get error message:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

When I add this to .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^autojeesi.fi
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.autojeesi.fi/$1 [R=301,L]

I have tried also tried to add [nc] with the same result:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^autojeesi\.fi [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.autojeesi.fi/$1 [R=301,L]

Why is this happening? There are a lot of there rewriterule examples that have some minor differences in the internet and I have tried them but always the same result.

Do I have to do something on the server side?

I would really appreciate if anyone could help me out

[Steffen]

Try:

[Mikanas]

Thanks your reply. It surely looks better now. Now if I write exact address they works well. But if I just write autojeesi.fi it still gives me the error message:
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Same happens if I write just www.autojeesi.fi or http://autojeesi.fi

How is actually your way to do this differ from the one I tried? I would like to understand more this.

edit: By exact address I mean www.autojeesi.fi/auton-vuokraus.shtml for example

[Steffen]

What is within your directive <Directory />

[Mikanas]

I suppose you mean what I have in the directory where my website locates. (Im sorry I am quite unfamiliar with all the terms).

The directory is located in /username/public_html/prod and there are now

- bunch of shtml files
- .htaccess
- .htpasswd
- some .php files that are used as websites too
- images
- css file
- sitemap xml
- robots.txt

[Steffen]

Nope I mean in httpd.conf the directive <Directory />, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#directory

[Mikanas]

Thanks, i will request the credentials to access the server.

[Mikanas]

Hi!

I can't get access to httpd.conf file. However it should be ok.

I found out that the one that is makint the Forbidden 403 error to occur is this peace of code:

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Is there alternative way for that so everything would work?

[Mikanas]

Actually now I think I got it more specific. I have changed the index.shtml to auton-vuokraus.shtml and that actually must be allowed in that httpd.conf file.

Am I on the right track?

[Mikanas]

Ach! I found the mistake and didn't need to edit httpd.conf.

This one broke it down:
AddType text/html;charset=utf-8 .shtml

I changed it to:
AddType text/html .shtml

Also I changed this:
Options Includes

to this:
Options +IncludesNoExec -ExecCGI

Now it seems to work just fine..

[Steffen]

Good to hear that you solved it. We all learn from it.

Steffen