Other .HTACCESS Issue

[tommydamic68]

Willing to pay someone can figure out why my .htaccess file or something else is causing my robots.txt to NOT show to search engines. When typing in my site URL, it redirects to just the sites URL. if I type www.mysite.com/robots.txt it just redirects to www.mysite.com

Please PM me - Thank you.

 

[truonglv]

Why you don't post content of .htacess there? So many people can help

 

[tommydamic68]

Why you don't post content of .htacess there? So many people can help

I did - no one has been able to help me…

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/url-redirect.66193/#post-696681

 

[MattW]

Possibly this one:

RewriteRule ^.*$ /community/ [R=301,L]

 

[tommydamic68]

Possibly this one:

RewriteRule ^.*$ /community/ [R=301,L]

No - it didn't work. Thanks for trying @MattW

 

[MattW]

 

[tommydamic68]

So what does this mean @MattW

 

[MattW]

Well that rule you have in place, will look for ANYTHING in the / directory, regardless of filename or extension type, and will redirect it to your community directory.

 

[tommydamic68]

Can I change intro work properly?

 

[Bryan Gilchrist]

It means no matter what you type in, it will forward to your /community directory.

Just move your robots.txt to your /community directory.

 

[tommydamic68]

It means no matter what you type in, it will forward to your /community directory.

Just move your robots.txt to your /community directory.

Will try when I get home - will it serve the same purpose with robots in that folder as apposed to the root? I think that redirect was given to me by @Jake Bunce - can't I just change, remove or correct it to work properly?

 

[Bryan Gilchrist]

It should because pretty much anyone that goes to your site, including search engines, is seeing your /community directory as your root directory.

 

[tommydamic68]

Ok- will update later.

 

[tommydamic68]

It should because pretty much anyone that goes to your site, including search engines, is seeing your /community directory as your root directory.

Nope - no good, still redirects to URL - no robots.txt...

 

[tommydamic68]

View attachment 64587

And if i remove that code, I do get the robots.txt - however my site doesn't work correct. I REALLY wish @Jake bunco would chime in - he gave me the rewrite code…probably a simple fix.

 

[nodle]

I can see it at:

http://sphynxlair.com/community/robots.txt

What's the problem?

 

[Bryan Gilchrist]

If you're trying to go to yoursite.com/robots.txt with the redirect, it won't work no matter what.

If you have your robots.txt file in your /community directory, it will be fine. The search engines will still see it.

Search engines don't know where your home directory is, so they are going to look for the first instance of robots.txt which, with the redirect, will be in your /community directory.

If you're still wanting to put the robots.txt into your root directory, then you can use a META REFRESH instead of an .htaccess redirect.

In your root directory, edit a file called "index.html", and in that file, put the following code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://www.yoursite.com/community'" />

That way, when you go to www.yoursite.com/robots.txt it will be there.

Just be sure to remove the redirect in your .htaccess file if you choose to do this. Also, you'll have to add "community/" to all of your disallow links so the search engine knows not to look at the links/directories listed in your /community directory.

 

[EQnoble]

And if i remove that code, I do get the robots.txt - however my site doesn't work correct. I REALLY wish @Jake bunco would chime in - he gave me the rewrite code…probably a simple fix.

I had to laugh here...bunco is a dice game lol You ended up tagging the wrong user ;-)

 

[tommydamic68]

I had to laugh here...bunco is a dice game lol You ended up tagging the wrong user ;-)

Lol- your right! Oh and by the way, I have smacked myself silly - I did try to access www.mysite.com/robots.txt instead of www.mysite.com/community/robots.txt @Bryan Gilchrist - thanks! And it's does show @nodle

 

[tommydamic68]

Thanks everyone for the help!