.htaccess working?

[Jeep Stone]

I want to direct a site from one domain to another .co.uk to a .com

I've got an .htaccess file with the following:

Redirect 301 / http://www.bloomsofbressingham.co.uk/

It's uploaded successfully, but has no effect. There is nothing else in the file. What could I have missed?

[suedenem]

.htaccess is an apache thing - looks like this site is running on IIS:

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bloomsofbressingham.co.uk

You'll have to go through the site config to set up redirects, etc.

[Jeep Stone]

hmmm the .co.uk site is asp but the .com site is php.

[suedenem]

Don't forget that PHP can run perfectly well on IIS and ASP (of sorts) can run on Apache (albeit as ChilliASP, buggy as hell and infuriatingly slow).

Don't always assume Apache is running just because PHP is installed.

[Jeep Stone]

Nah, it's def an Apache server

I've done a redirect from 123reg, but it supposedly takes 24 as they do it via DNS.

[AndrewShanklin]

Jeep, you are right it is an Apache server....

If you have access to it, you need to open up your server httpd.conf file and enable the use of .htaccess files.

Then save the file and restart the server to allow the changes to take affect.

If this is a shared server and you are not the administrator you will need to contact your hosting company and ask them to do it.

Andy.

[Jeep Stone]

This is a dedicated server with Fasthosts

I'll have a dig around on the server for it.

Edit: Looks like Fasthosts don't support .htaccess for anything other than security. How ironic and also utterly useless.

[AndrewShanklin]

It should be located:

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

If they dont support .htaccess for anything other than security (which sounds odd)...

You can setup a 301 redirect in the httpd.conf file.

Andy.

[Jeep Stone]

I've had confirmation that they DO support it, but they have no idea why it's not working. Thanks Andrew, I'll take a butcher's at that.