XF 2.0 Enable board URL canonicalization

[Jon12345]

Do you Enable board URL canonicalization? Or leave that box unchecked?

 

[Paul B]

Enable it - it should force all visitors to access the site via a single domain/protocol.

 

[Jon12345]

I just enabled it but it didn't like it. It couldn't find the forum pages. Do I contact my host to sort this or do I edit the htaccess file myself. if that is the issue?

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

I just enabled it but it didn't like it. It couldn't find the forum pages. Do I contact my host to sort this or do I edit the htaccess file myself. if that is the issue?

Board URL is in ACP
Basic board information

 

[Jon12345]

Thanks for that. I hadn't edited http to https. All working now.

 

[webbouk]

Is there any benefit in doing this?

The reason I ask is I have several related domains pointing to the same website using 301 redirects

 

[Paul B]

It's intended to remove issues with people accessing the site via www or without it, http and https.

Typically you would use rewrite rules in .htaccess to achieve that.

 

[Hristo Avramov]

So I take it to enable it in options is better option than in htaccess?

Does this option in config.php do something or it needs to be removed
"$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';"

It's intended to remove issues with people accessing the site via www or without it, http and https.

Typically you would use rewrite rules in .htaccess to achieve that.

 

[Mike]

It's certainly simpler than .htaccess, but it doesn't really do anything particularly different.

That $_SERVER line is generally unneeded. It does do something, though it's more likely to cause issues in the future if you ever did allow non-HTTPS access.

 

[Hristo Avramov]

If URL canonicalization is enabled should we be removing code in .htacess like this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

 

[doublespaces]

If URL canonicalization is enabled should we be removing code in .htacess like this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Yes, especially because your rules don't cover non www