Setting up IIRF to redirect to www

Monday, February 18, 2008 By Chris Hammond (Updated 4/7/2024)

So I have been doing some testing on my website and needed to redirect requests to http://chrishammond.com to http://www.chrishammond.com/. Lucky for me the site is using IIRF to manage my urls from the old community server days to my DotNetNuke conversion.

Using IIRF I'm able to create a simple rule that will handle the redirects for me, I've pasted it below.

# force proper www. prefix on all requests
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^chrishammond\.com [I]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.chrishammond.com/$1 [I,RP]

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[RP] - ? it's not in the official documentation Where did you get it from ?

Posted By: Furmek F on Mar 2008
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RP doesn't have any meaning to IIRF. I think it means "redirect permanently" on Helicon's ISAPI rewrite. If you want that in IIRF, just use [R] or combine it with [I] like [I,R].
Posted By: Cheeso C on Jun 2008
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Hi Chris, I've tried your suggestions above but no joy (I added the changes from the comment above this but still couldn't get it to work) Not sure quite what I'm doing wrong... any ideas? Thanks Simon RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.co.uk [I] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [I,R]
Posted By: Simon Nicol on Oct 2009
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I'm not actually using IIRF anymore, I use the URLMaster module for DotNetNuke, available from http://www.ifinity.com.au/
Posted By: Chris Hammond on Oct 2009
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I just figured it out. The rule used is a RewriteRule. To redirect, use RedirectRule instead. RedirectRule ^/(.*) http://www.domaincom/$1 [R=301]
Posted By: Sujay R on Nov 2009

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