301 Redirect breakes catalog

[gordon7987]

Hi

I am trying to set up 301 permanent redirect from non www to www URLs all for the purpose of redirecting SE robots to a single domain. For that purpose I have placed .htaccess file in the roote folder with the following code:

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

The brochure pages are working nicely, however the catalog pages are returning 500 internal server error.

Any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated

[Bruce]

Gordon,

To redirect all non-www traffic to www:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Ensure that all your links to folders always end in a trailing / if there is no filename after that link.

A search for 301 redirect on the forum should produce several threads dealing with the subject.

Kind regards,