Www to non-www not working

[ForexTalk]

Hi,

I want to update the forum board from www to non-www. I was able to make redirect by editing .htaccess file, but seems like the board is only accessible via www version. The non-www version show 404 Not Found page.

I did change the basic options to reflect the change but it's still the same.

Any idea on this please?

Thank you.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Did you tick enable board URL canonicalisation?

 

[ForexTalk]

I checked the 301config.php and it has:

$fileDir = 'C:/inetpub/wwwroot/xenforo';

Is that mean the forum is only available with www?

 

[ForexTalk]

Did you tick enable board URL canonicalisation?

I did.

It's not issue with the redirect as I was able to do it. But the non-www board show 404 page, it's the error message from the webserver. I did restart the LiteSpeed server after the change too!

 

[TPerry]

Did you modify your .htaccess to perform the rewrite function?

 

[ForexTalk]

Yes, the code in .htaccess:

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

And the redirect did work!

 

[TPerry]

So, is it now working or not? You weren't real clear on that.

 

[ForexTalk]

The redirect is working, but the board return 404 Not Found page on non-www. I'm not sure why!

 

[TPerry]

The redirect is working, but the board return 404 Not Found page on non-www. I'm not sure why!

If it's returning a 404 error, then it's not working.
What is the site URL?

 

[Mr Lucky]

If it's returning a 404 error, then it's not working.

Correct.

So what URL is it directing to (that gives the error.)

Technically (I think) you don't even need the htaccess redirect if you have the board canonical set.

 

[Miri]

The only one that does a correct redirect (for my websites) from www and from http to https without www is this with the RewriteEngine On:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]

i tried all the variables, but for some reason it was redirecting not www but not https. With this above code I fixed my redirects

404 is also a typical redirect error.