CPanel Redirect not allowing login access.

[Highline_Ideas]

Using the redirect function in cPanel I am able to create the 301 redirect that I need to not have duplicate content issues in Moz. However, the issue now is that when I try to login to domain.com/login it redirects to domain.com/index.php?q=admin, which is not a page on the site and I can no longer login.

I have checked the htaccess file and it appears that the entry is correct ( I originally thought that the cPanel redirect was not writing access correctly ). I am not sure if there is a small detail that I am missing with this or not.

So my main question is how do I redirect my site to remove dup content errors while retaining the login at domain.com/admin and not be redirected to domain.com/index.php?q=admin? Thank you ahead of time for your assistance.

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Andrea,

I am not sure exactly what dup content issues you are trying to correct...

If you have ftp access then you can simply take out the last lines that were added through cpanel and that should then let you login again. As for the correct setup, give us a few more details on what exactly you are trying to achieve.

[Highline_Ideas]

Lynn,

Sorry for the vagueness of the question. The issues I am getting in my Moz report is duplicate content issues resulting from the indexing of both the www. and non-www. sites. I have set my preferred url in WT to be the non-www. and so I want to 301 redirect the www to non-www so I am done in one step, but it appears that in doing this in C-panel causes an issue with the login by appending the /index.html at the end of the login url creating a 404 error. I know I can remove the code to login again from the htaccess file but in removing the redirect I get duplicate content errors again. I was hoping to avoid redirecting every individual page. But is that the solution? Thanks again for the info.

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Andrea,

What code are you using to to the redirects? If you can edit the htaccess file directly then simply drop  the following code into it and all calls to a www url should be redirected to the non www url. No index.html or anything else should be added if you use this, it simply redirects all www to non www urls.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Is that what you are after?

[Highline_Ideas]

That is the code that I have currently in my htaccess file. However, the issue is that with this code in my htaccess file I am having an issue where when i type in the URL to log into the site;

domain.com/admin

With the redirect active I get redirected to the following URL structure;

domain.com/index.php?q=admin

which is a page that does not exist and therefore gives me a 404 error.

If I remove

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I can log in. However, this brings back all of the duplicate www. and non-www. issues.

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Andrea,

Is that the only code you have in the htaccess file, or are there more lines? What cms are you using?

it seems to me that your cms (or something else) is trying to rewrite internal site search terms (hence the q=admin) but there must be more in your htaccess file for this to be happening. Care to mention the site so I can have a quick look?

[Highline_Ideas]

The following is the full htaccess file for the site in question. The CMS that we are using on this site is drupal, with cPanel on the backend server side. I originally thought there was a line that of code that was causing this ( I will be honest, I do not know what each line commands) but when I checked it against other htaccess files the code appeared to be the same.

Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

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

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Andrea,

This looks like a drupal issue, not a cpanel issue and I am not that familiar with Drupal.

That being said, are you sure the above htaccess is the complete file that works? If you remove the lines that you say create the issue, you still have this line: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] which is the one that handles rewriting urls to the form q=admin.

You could try moving the 2 lines of code: 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://domain.com/$1" [R=301,L]

To immediately below the  'RewriteEngine on' line (and obviously putting your domain in place of domain.com) so that they run first before the rest of the rules. This might work, but to me the above looks like it will be rewriting to q=admin anyway, so maybe this is a drupal setup issue that I am unfamiliar with.

[Highline_Ideas]

Lynn,

Good morning. I tried the above suggestion and it worked! Thank you for your help with this issue!