HTACCESS Redirect giving me jip!

[Chapster5]

So I want to redirect a domain and a sub domain to 2 seperate facebook pages. The main domain:

www.belfastcarscene.co.uk I want to redirect to https://www.facebook.com/belfastcarsceneni

Somehow I have managed to make it do that no problem. Now the second domain:

www.belfastcarscene.co.uk/cruise-for-cancer-2013 I want to redirect to https://www.facebook.com/events/318399681587754

When it tries to redirect it removes the colon infront of https rendering the link useless what is causing it to do that? Here is the .HTACCESS file that I have in the /cruise-for-cancer-2013 root folder.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.facebook.com/events/318399681587754/$1 [R=301,L]

What is going on?

Cheers

Nick

 

[Thrill]

Tried non https?tried removing the https:// and just use www.?

 

[Sym0n]

Redirect 301 /cruise-for-cancer-2013 https://www.facebook.com/events/318399681587754

Maybe? I'm on my phone so that might be totally wrong.

 

[Chapster5]

I'll give it a go when I'm back at a computer guys . Https doesn't really make a difference it's what Facebook seems to accept.

 

[bmh.01]

I'm with Sym0n, i'd do it with a 301 permanent redirect with mod_alias rather than mod_rewrite.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect

 

[C.J]

RedirectMatch 301 /[COLOR=#333333]cruise-for-cancer-2013[/COLOR](.*) https://www.facebook.com/events/318399681587754/$1

Just tested on my server, works fine.

E.g. http://cjarrett.com/testforCS

 

[Sym0n]

You're welcome...

 

[Thrill]

You're welcome...

He's not the original poster

 

[Sym0n]

I care not. I'm preempting Chapster having a double coronary in Costa and not being able to thank me.

And I may have not read the thread properly too.

 

[Chapster5]

I care not. I'm preempting Chapster having a double coronary in Costa and not being able to thank me.

And I may have not read the thread properly too.

LOL I will never die from a giant costa confectionary! I will give it a whirl tomorrow when I'm home and report back .

 

[Chapster5]

Awesome work guys working like a charm. Now I have another request . I can't seem to get a rewrite to www. to work say

example.com I want it to change to www.example.com if you miss off the www.

and then do a redirect to a file on the server let me explain.

supasuds.co.uk automatically goes to index.php where as www.supasuds.co.uk goes to a generic apache filler page.

So I want supasuds.co.uk to change to www.supasuds.co.uk then redirect to index.php

​Cheers!

 

[C.J]

I assume you've only got one index file in your root?

 

[Chapster5]

You would be correct just index.php.

Strange thing is ice looked at it on my phone from both addresses with and without www and it works my mate said it works also and it works on my misses netbook :/ what the hell.

 

[Sym0n]

Have you checked the cPanel settings?
What's in your .htaccess file?
Diet starts today, right?

 

[Chapster5]

Apparently I had to clear my Cache because the domain was so new the name servers where still adjusting themselves. All seems to be in working order now I hate HTACCESS.

Oh diet?! Yeah starts after I finish the sausage roll I have in the car .

 

[Thrill]

.htaccess is so functional!