I have attempted to read various documentation, as well as other answers online, and I cannot find a solution to my problem.
Here is my issue:
I have a permanent www to non-www redirect setup to point traffic from www.example.com to example.com
This works, but I am having issues when trying to visit specific urls. For example:
We have three PDFS that we would like people to be able to download via:
example.com/paper/somepdfname.pdf
When i visit the url like this it works, but if I try to visit something like this:
www.example.com/paper/somepdfname.pdf
The browser gets redirected, and strips one of the slashes out, resulting in "the site cannot be reached error". This is the url I end up with in the browser:
example.compaper/somepdfname.pdf
I think its pretty clear that I need to somehow make sure there is a forward slash put before the paper, but I do not know how to do this. Below you will find my .htaccess directive for handling the redirect:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1/ [R=301,L]
Best Answer
Using
mod_rewrite
seems like an overkill for you. I recommend usingmod_alias
and itsRedirect
directive.