Redirect www to non-www in one subdirectory only

elisethechemist

Hello,

I've set up https://whinny.club/community but when I go to www.whinny.club/community, obviously non of the cookies or scripts load properly.

I've tried many different tutorials to redirect one sub-directory without any luck. The home directory has wordpress in it, so I can't redirect all to the home.

All help appreciated - thank you!

clarkwinkelmann

elisethechemist I don't think having wordpress at the root prevents you from redirecting the whole domain. Surely Wordpress would also benefit from being limited to its canonical url.

You can add the redirect rule to wordpress htaccess file, and it should apply to the whole domain.

If you need further help, can you post which code you used for redirects, assuming you used an htaccess-based solution ?

If you just want to redirect Flarum, you might want to take a look at the Canonical Url extension.

elisethechemist

Hey there! Thank you for the reply. I imagine it would benefit, but I hesitated because I am not the best at this and wordpress already has a bunch of its own redirects in the htaccess file.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/cpanel-dcv/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/(?:\ Ballot169)?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/cpanel-dcv/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/(?:\ Ballot169)?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-SSL} !on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.whinny\.club$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/cpanel-dcv/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/(?:\ Ballot169)?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^community\/?$ "https\:\/\/whinny\.club\/community" [R=301,L]

This is the htaccess file. At the bottom you can see where I attempted the redirect here using the cpanel redirect function (which just adds the code into the htaccess file).

This is how I have the htaccess set up in the public part of the flarum directory:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

  # Ensure the Authorization HTTP header is available to PHP
  RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

  # Uncomment the following lines if you are not using a `public` directory
  # to prevent sensitive resources from being exposed.
  # RewriteRule /\.git / [F,L]
  # RewriteRule ^composer\.(lock|json)$ / [F,L]
  # RewriteRule ^config.php$ / [F,L]
  # RewriteRule ^flarum$ / [F,L]
  # RewriteRule ^storage/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  # RewriteRule ^vendor/(.*)?$ / [F,L]

  # Pass requests that don't refer directly to files in the filesystem to index.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Just in case that helps or hinders.
I run cpanel, but I own the server, so I can SSH whatever is needed. Also, the core flarum files are hidden behind public_html. I just went into the flarum file and redirected everything there. The "community" directory sits in public_html/community.