Ok so I've rewrited URL in my website, now for some reason, it is throwing 404 error if I type www.domain.com, if I type domian.com, everything works fine.
DirectoryIndex home.php
IndexIgnore *
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/directory/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^home/?$ home.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^about/?$ about.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^404/?$ 404.php [NC]
ErrorDocument 404 http://domain.com/directory/404
Note: I've commented the 1st 2 rewrite rules as even If I change them it doesn't effect after uploading .htaccess to server, feels like it's cached.
Additional Info, am using <base> tag which is in embeds.php
if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '::1') {
echo '<base href="http://localhost/projects/directory/" />';
} else {
echo '<base href="http://domain.com/directory/" />';
}
Directory Structure
Root -
home.php
about.php
-stylesheets
default.css
-includes
embeds.php
404.php
.htaccess
embeds.php is included in home.php, about.php etc, and stylesheets, scripts etc, inshort the head section along with <base> tag are in embeds.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
It should work, if it dosn't it comes from your DNS, or Vhost configuration.
It was also an issue of firefox, which was caching my .htaccess file
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