New Hampshire Free Press site broken

[Bill St. Clair]

For a couple of days now, the New Hampshire Free Press site, http://nhunderground.com/NHFreePress/ , has displayed with everything down one column, instead of nicely laid out. Also, links to other places in the site don't work, only the home page. I figured it out today. All the links in the page source start with a "/", meaning that they look for their target at the top-level of the site, instead of in the NHFreePress directory. My guess is that somebody changed the mod-rewrite rules in the .htaccess file, and that broke stuff, but it's hard to tell without being able to see the php and the .htaccess file.

[Bill St. Clair]

Duh. If I use the proper address for the site, http://newhampshirefreepress.com/ , it works fine.

As Emily Latella used to say, "Never mind."

It would be nice if the wrong address, in my first post, auto-forwarded to the right address.

[Kat Kanning]

Thanks, I'll try and fix it.

[Kat Kanning]

Anyone know why this isn't working anymore?  Trying to forward newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress -> newhampshirefreepress.com

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^NHFreePress\/?$ "http\:\/\/newhampshirefreepress\.com\/" [R=301,L]

[bile]

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^NHFreePress/(.*)$ http://newhampshirefreepress.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^NHFreePress$ http://newhampshirefreepress.com/ [R=301,L]


not sure why it would just stop working... perhaps the host changed something.

[Mike Barskey]

I don't think it stopped working. I think she wants to add a new forward, so that people who mistakenly enter the wrong URL get forwarded to the correct one.

If it did stop working, however, it was probably something I did (I manipulated some files on their recently). I don't think that's the case, though. After I fixed what I screwed up a few weeks ago, I tested the old forward (nhunderground.com/nhfreepress -> newhampshriefreepress.com) and it worked fine, and it still works fine.

Looking at Site5's admin interface (where this domain is hosted), they offer a GUI to forward from the nhunderground.com domain, but you must enter your own apache mod_rewrite rules (as Kat did) to do any other forwarding.

So I don't know why her rewrite rule is not working. Maybe it depends on where the .htaccess file is located?

[Kat Kanning]

It was working before.

.htaccess is located in /public_html

[Kat Kanning]

Oh, I have the forward there because all the old links on the internet point to /NHFreePress directory.  I'd like the old links to work.

[bile]

What I posted should work but if there is a cpanel gui or something that makes it easier that'd probably be a safer bet.

[Mike Barskey]

It was working before.

.htaccess is located in /public_html
...
Oh, I have the forward there because all the old links on the internet point to /NHFreePress directory.  I'd like the old links to work.

I may be misunderstanding what the current problem is. Are you saying that the old links are like: http://newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/node/1 ? I thought the old link were like: http://nhunderground.com/NHFreePress/node/1 .

Where can I find one of the old links?

What I posted should work but if there is a cpanel gui or something that makes it easier that'd probably be a safer bet.

The CPanel gui only makes it easy to add forwards to the nhunderground.com domain. If you want to add forwards to other domains, I think you have to do it the way you are doing it, in the .htaccess file.

[Kat Kanning]

Old address http://newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/whatever
New address http://newhampshirefreepress.com/whatever

[bile]

What I posted originally is exactly that.

[Mike Barskey]

Kat, is it working how you want it to, now?

[Kat Kanning]

Yes.  Remind me to give you a big hug next time I see you.    Thanks!!!

[Mike Barskey]

Woohoo! Free Kat hug!

For the record, in case this happens again: I placed Bile's RewriteRules in the .htaccess file that's in the NHFreePress directory. That .htccess file also has some other RewriteRules for Drupal.