How can I fix too many redirects caused by .htaccess?

Question

I recently added a Wordpress blog to a client's website. I create a subdirectory and installed Wordpress there. Everything worked fine until I added a .htaccess file to the root directory.

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^websitename.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.websitename.com/$1 [r=301,nc] 

Now, when I click on the blog link I get the following error

The webpage at http://websitename.com/blog/ has resulted in too many redirects. 
Clearing    your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with 
your computer.

Does anybody know how to fix this problem? I'm not at all familiar with .htaccess.

Edit: Just to be clear, The 301 redirect works fine for all of the pages, Except for the blog folder. If you type in websitename.com, your redirected to www.websitename.com. However if you type in websitename.com/blog you will encounter the error. The blog in in this example points to a Wordpress folder.

Answer 1

I take it you are trying to force "www."?

Use the following:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^suncoastlaw\.com
RewriteRule .* http://www.%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

To get a little bit more info, check out the post I wrote here: Forcing www

Answer 2

you want *.suncoastlaw.com/xx -> www.suncoastlaw.com/xx do you ?

then your conf

^(.*)$ http://www.suncoastlaw.com/$1

let www.suncoastlaw.com/$1 301-> www.suncoastlaw.com/$1

so there would be too many redirect

change to

rewritecond %{http_host} !www.suncoastlaw.com

when not www.suncoastlaw.com then redirect

all the rewrite conf detail could be found at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

how to trace

your http://suncoastlaw.com/blog/ redirect to http://www.suncoastlaw.com/blog/ and then http://www.suncoastlaw.com/blog/ redirect to http://suncoastlaw.com/blog/ this is the problem

$ curl -I http://suncoastlaw.com/blog/
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:37:10 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.suncoastlaw.com/blog/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1



$ curl -I http://www.suncoastlaw.com/blog/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:37:21 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Pingback: http://suncoastlaw.com/blog/xmlrpc.php
Location: http://suncoastlaw.com/blog/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Answer 3

Try adding these lines to your httpd.conf file instead of using .htaccess file to force WWW sub-domain:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(127\.0\.0\.0|localhost) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [L,R=301]

You might also want to add your IP in the list of the second line, if you'll be accessing your web server by IP only. For a bit more explanation also read the answer in this thread ;)