Accessing the scripts from a non-www account

[grant]

Our client has a site (http://www.boutiqueperfumes.co.uk), which works fine. However, should the site be accessed from a non-www address, then the site will return an "access denied" error whenever the a perl script is accessed.

eg.

http://boutiqueperfumes.co.uk/acatal...oetz-face.html - click "add to basket".

Any suggestions as to what is causing the problem and how to fix it?

[wjcampbe]

You need to set up automatic translation of non-www addresses to the www equivalent.

[Darren B]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.website.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

.htacess file in the root on your website

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[grant]

Hi Darren, wjcampbe.

Thanks for your input

Darren, I have put the code in my .htaccess file, which now looks like this

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^boutiqueperfumes.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.boutiqueperfumes.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.boutiqueperfumes.co.uk/
--------------------------

Unfortunately, whilst the error document command works, the rewrite engine doesn't appear to be working (is it supposed to change the url in the address bar to http://www.boutiqueperfumes.co.uk? Or leave it as it is?)

Any suggestions?

[Darren B]

ok slight error in the code

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^boutiqueperfumes\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.boutiqueperfumes.co.uk.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

sorry about that

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[Darren B]

Jees this F******g server is driving me nuts
im off to do something more productive

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