I guess you have some malformed links within your site. Use

Xenu Linksleuth

and attempt to track them down. Those links must be fixed to point to the correct URL.


What have you tried so far? It should be just a couple of simple lines of code, something like:

RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)+)www\.example\.com http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Actually, if the problem is malformed links, this code will get the user to page they were expecting:

RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)+)www\.example\.com/(.*) http://www.example.com/$2 [R=301,L]

Sorry - still getting "nothing found for... when I click on this link:
[onlineglobalbiz.com...]

For whatever reason, there is no redirect when the link is clicked.

That means the code is either incorrect, incomplete, or not installed in the right place.

It works now!
I edited .htaccess, so that the rewrite commands are before the Wordpress section, like so:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

Options +FollowSymlinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)+)www\.onlineglobalbiz\.com/(.*) [onlineglobalbiz.com...] [R=301,L]

</ifmodule>


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

But I would love to know why it works!
Thanks for your help
Tom

The rewrite code (the bit ending with the

[L]

flag) sends the request to the hard drive to get the content.

By then it is too late to change the URL with a redirect.

You should redirect incorrect requests first. The redirect tells the browser to make a new request for the new URL. Once the browser asks for the right URL, and only then, let the rewrite fetch the content.


You have repeated

RewriteEngine On

twice. The second copy can be deleted.

The

<ifModule>

code (4 tags) also isn't required.

Hi
Your fix is working very well for the many links I had in the form "www.onlineglobalbiz.com\<directoryname>/http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/links.php"

But it falls down when there's more than one level in the directory path, e.g.: "www.onlineglobalbiz.com\<directoryname1/directoryname2>/http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/links.php"

Could you help with this also please (so that it can handle any number of directory levels?)

My example code make no provision for the http:// in the MIDDLE of the URL, so the pattern was probably matching one of the slashes in that.

Add that provision to the pattern. and then it should work for multiple depths. It "worked" despite a coding error!

Like this:?
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/+/+/)+)www\.onlineglobalbiz\.com/(.*) [onlineglobalbiz.com...] [R=301,L]

NO.

Something like this:

RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)+)http://www\.example\.com/(.*) http://www.example.com/$2 [R=301,L]

You'll likely also need to add provision for requests containing an encoded colon and/or encoded slashes.

Use example.com to stop the forum auto-linking your URLs. Without the autolinking on your post, you would have had the correct code in the first answer.

I'm sorry but would you please give the code for this?