Hello everyone - I designed a website for a friend here: http://bit.ly/qw8U4

I'm trying to redirect from:
example.com -> www.example.com
and
nn.nnn.nnn.nnn -> www.example.com

and I'm trying to do it using the htaccess through this code:

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

The redirection works perfectly, however, the perl search engine (www.example.com/search/search.pl) on this website gives a forbidden error! (This search engine is available at www.xav.com)

Does anyone have any experience with this situation? How can a perl file become inaccessible by 301 redirection through the htaccess file? Someone please help!

Thanks-
ULTRON

No idea how about giving us the REAL URIs so we can SEE what is happening???

Here is the real website: http://bit.ly/qw8U4

The perl search engine is located at /search/search.pl

This .pl file is directly accessible through the browser now, but when I use 301 redirection through the htaccess file, a direct link to the .pl file gives a 403 error and the website search doesn't work.

Any ideas why?

Thanks

Originally Posted by chrishirst

No idea how about giving us the REAL URIs so we can SEE what is happening???

How about showing us a link that DOESN'T work??

I have the same problem. Hope I will get the solution from this forum.

Thanks

This problem has been solved; I just reinstalled the search engine in the cgi-bin and it worked fine. I think it was a problem with read/write permissions.

Regards,

ULTRON

Originally Posted by Fusion BPO

I have the same problem. Hope I will get the solution from this forum.

Thanks