www.mysite.com vs mysite.com vs mysite.com/index.php

General Installation & Upgrade
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www.mysite.com

mysite.com

mysite.com/index.php



for me, all 3 pages are different.



how would I go about rectifying this?

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301 redirect non www to www or the other way around. Put this in your .htaccess file:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ [url="http://mysite.com"]http://mysite.com[/url] [L,R=301]



Index.php is not a problem, this is simply your homepage.

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What Floris says will definitely work, but if you have this set correctly in your config.local.php I think it will automatically do this for you. How do you have that set?



Thanks,



Brandon

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You’re right Brandon… I didn’t even think about that. I was already wondering why I didn’t have it in my .htaccess :)

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It also depends upon (assuming Apache) your webserver configuration. You may not have access (you might have to have your host check), but the standard setup is:

ServerName: www.mydomain.com

ServerAlias: mydomain.com



This will then use the same “server” for requests to the IP address for either of those names.

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[quote name='Flow' timestamp='1327835541' post='130168']

301 redirect non www to www or the other way around. Put this in your .htaccess file:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ [url="http://mysite.com"]http://mysite.com[/url] [L,R=301]



Index.php is not a problem, this is simply your homepage.

[/quote]



thanks, but this didnt work for me


[quote name='brandonvd' timestamp='1327858031' post='130175']

What Floris says will definitely work, but if you have this set correctly in your config.local.php I think it will automatically do this for you. How do you have that set?



Thanks,



Brandon

[/quote]



thanks, this partly worked. mysite.com and www.mysite.com are still not the same. mysite.com is wrong



// Names of index files for administrative and customer areas

$config['admin_index'] = 'admin.php';

$config['customer_index'] = 'index.html';



this means that now when a customer clicks on the logo, instead of going to index.php, it goes to index.html (which is what I want because index.php was old version of store front)

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I found the reason mysite.com looked different. The category photos in cscart were different to what was on the home page, which I edited manually. So I updated them and now mysite.com works fine



mysite.com/index.php is still wrong, but www.mysite.com/index.php redirects to mysite.com/index.html (this works but is it a bad idea?). But since the customer now does not use mysite.com/index.php, does it matter?

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In your config.local.php, you need to do something like:


// Host and directory where software is installed on no-secure server
$config['http_host'] = 'www.your-domain.com';
$config['http_path'] = '';

// Host and directory where software is installed on secure server
$config['https_host'] = 'www.your-domain.com';
$config['https_path'] = '';



And you should be all set.



Brandon

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Should, perhaps, but not. index.php displays categories (main block) that have not been used for a very long time. Everything else though seems ok. very weird