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    • thomasfasting
      thomasfasting last edited by

      I get the following message when I try to start a new campaign.

      "We have detected that the domain www.shewula.nl and the domain shewula.nl both respond to web requests and do not redirect"

      In the q&a I found answers to this problem and tried to fix it. No success yet.

      This is what I have in my old ht.access file:

      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}    ^www.shewula.nl$

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/STICHTING_SHEWULA/

      RewriteRule (.*)    /STICHTING_SHEWULA/$1 [last]

      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}    ^shewula.nl$

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/STICHTING_SHEWULA/

      RewriteRule (.*)    /STICHTING_SHEWULA/$1 [last]

      I changed it to ( got it from the answers 😞

      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^shewula.nl
      RewriteRule (.*) http://www.shewula.nl/$1 [R=301,L]

      This gave me a 500 internal error in the server header checker tool.

      Does anybody know how I can fix this?

      The website is in a folder in the root of my other website  www.fastingfotografie.nl

      Could this give me a problem?

      Thanks.

      Thomas

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      • icecarats
        icecarats last edited by

         <code>```
        <code>Your changed one is missing the wildcards. Unless I'm wrong, it would only</code>
        
        <code>match 'shewula.nl' exactly, and not anything else.</code> 
        
        <code>This might work, but I'm just eyeballing it and am not good with regex:</code>
        ```</code> 
        

        <code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.).shewula.nl(.)$ [NC]
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

        <code>edit-ugh stupid editor auto-inserting code blocks</code>
        ```
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        • AdoptionHelp
          AdoptionHelp last edited by

          Here's what you need:

          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.shewula.nl [NC]
          RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.shewula.nl/$1 [R=301,L]

          The 500 error is because you were not escaping the . in your regex on the first line.

          The code here will only redirect if it doesn't have the www.

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          • thomasfasting
            thomasfasting @icecarats last edited by

            Thanks Valery. Your code is working too.

            I can start with the campaign now.

            Regards,

            Thomas

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