urlSegments and www redirect in .htaccess problem

[Hani]

I've enabled the redirect in .htaccess that will add www. to the URL if someone visits the site without it.  However, it seems like the redirect does not take into consideration urlSegments and simply ignores them.  

For example, if someone goes to

http://mydomain.com/section/urlSegment1/
 

They are redirected to

http://www.mydomain.com/section/
 

The section in the .htacess that was enabled are these two lines

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Anyone have any thoughts or a solution?  I'm an amateur when it comes to .htaccess.

[Alessio Dal Bianco]

Hi Hani,

Try this:

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

[Hani]

Thanks, Alessio.  However, that didn't seem to fix the issue I'm experiencing.  It still seems to behave in the same manner.

I suppose I should also ask, is anyone else able to confirm that this happens for them too?  Or is this unique to my setup?  My "section" page is set to allow URL segments of course.

[Alessio Dal Bianco]

I have used many times URL segments with no problems.

What version of PW are you using ?

Try to look with the web inspector if there are two redirects or one.

I think if there is one redirect is an .htaccess problem; 2 (maybe) PW problems.

[ryan]

I'm not really sure what could be causing that. Apache and .htaccess know nothing about URL segments... that is only a ProcessWire term. To Apache/.htaccess those URL segments are just a part of the REQUEST_URI like anything else. I would comment out that directive in your .htaccess and look elsewhere (in your .htaccess and in your PW templates) to see where the redirect might be coming from.