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[hearts Friend heartsJoin date: October 2007Posts: 32Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#125451

Our site: http://www.hearts-at-home.net works in IE 6 without the ‘www’ but does not with the ‘www’: http://hearts-at-home.net . What would be causing this? Is there anyway to fix this?

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#238134

did you set up your .htaccess redirect

what is your path in your config file

did you install any SEO components or activate seo in the config

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#238276

<em>@mj1256 39173 wrote:</em><blockquote>did you set up your .htaccess redirect

what is your path in your config file

did you install any SEO components or activate seo in the config</blockquote>

I didn’t set up a redirect. I set up http://www.hearts-at-home.net to point to my joomla site while testing.

CONFIG FILE SAYS…
$mosConfig_live_site = ‘http://hearts-at-home.net’;

I didn’t set up any search engine optimization.

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#238280

I just changed the config file to use the ‘www’ and now that works but without the ‘www’ when typed in as URL does not work. What do I need to do now?

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#238306

change
$mosConfig_live_site = ‘http://hearts-at-home.net’;
to
$mosConfig_live_site = ‘http://www.hearts-at-home.net’;

rename you htaccess.txt file to
.htaccess (make sure you have the period first, no file extention)

then add this line
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hearts-at-home.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.hearts-at-home.net/$1 [R=301,L]

then you can go to the SEO tab on your Global Configuration and set it for yes

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now. for anyone else who reads this, this is an important step for all websites. If you don’t do this, google will see you as having two duplicate websites and penalize you in the rankings.

this will redirect all requests fo the non www to the www domain and it should work now

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#238324

When I changed the SEO tab all of my ‘right’ side menu links didn’t work but my top menu links did. I have switched the tab back to ‘no’ for SEO. Need to check in IE6 to see if it works.

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#238325

yup, thats right, i’ve seen this before, you need to remove the right side links and remake them and they will work.

you will find that the www and non www were in fact in conflict and you will need to redo some links.and maybe a module or two.

this is not a browser compatibiliy issue

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#238394

The re-direct does not appear to be working.

Also, when I deleted the menu item and re-added it with the SEO ‘on’ the page was still not found.

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#238412

i’m not a member of the staff, but I am willing to take a look for you

could you pm me your login info and i will take a look later tonight

your newsflash isn’t working, i may have a solution for that too!

and…nice site 🙂

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#238616

The newsflash only had one published item. It does work with two content items in there.

I got the redirect to work through hosting cpanel redirect.

Thank you for your help. The JA_Genista logo is still showing up with IE6 on mouse over but not happening in IE7. I’ve updated our logo in default and all colors. Where else might it be grabbing the default install logo from?

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#238641

I had the same issue, they kept getting cached somewhere

I finally gave them new file names and changed the paths to the logos in the CSS and that solved it for me

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