vbulletin redirect http: to http://www.

[EmmaB]

With a vBulletin forum, how can i redirect http:// to cPanel®. and detach the index.php from it as well?

[iowadawg]

.htaccess

[EmmaB]

.htaccess

I know that, but what CODES? I shoulda put it into my OP lol

[Colleen]

I would not do that, sometimes index.php is going to be needed in the url and for sessions. Why don't you do what we do here and just remove index.php from the title image and the breadcrumb link?

Which can be done via editing the header and navbar templates.

[seovb]

index.php isn't need even if you're forced to using sessions or whatever as it can also append session id's without the .php file ex: 301 Moved Permanently would be the same as 301 Moved Permanently besides you shouldn't be using sessionID's anyway )

Adding this code to .htaccess should redirect all traffic to your www version and without index.php. Good for consoldating pagerank rather than having 3 different pageranks for your home page

Options +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php
 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.DOMAINNAME.com/ [R=301,L] 
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

ex: http://www.webtalkforums.com/index.php PR1
http://www.webtalkforums.com/ PR3