301 redirects, trailing slashes and folders that begin with an underscore

[sfunk1x]

Hey all -

I'm running into an issue with an .htaccess file with some 301 redirects.

I'm running a server that has a site which has an .htaccess file redirecting several domain names to another single canonical name. Those redirects work great, until you try going to a particular subfolder of a site which starts with an underscore, for example:

oldsitedomainname.com/_admin

would be redirected to:

http://www.newsitedomainname.com/_admin

however, it's actually being re-written like this:

http://www.newsitedomainname.com_admin

which doesn't work for obvious reasons.

I added the following code snippet from a 301 howto in order to add a trialing slash to URLs, which seems to work great, but that hasn't solved the problem:

rewriteCond $1 !/$
rewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/ -d
rewriteRule (.+) http://www.newsitedomainname.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

[sfunk1x]

Wow, so no one uses 301 redirects? Is there another method I could use to perform this same function?

Also, I'm running into a problem of the redirects only redirecting non-www addresses. Anytime someone prepends a www to the address, it won't get re-written.

[drieschel]

Hi sfunk1x,

try this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.newsitedomainname\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newsitedomainname.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Maybe it will work.

Greetz
drieschel

[sfunk1x]

Wow, that took care of it. Thank you very much!