domain and www.domain issues

[paulgodard]

I am very new to Mod_Rewrite.  However with the help of some people I managed to have my dynamic url converted to static one. But there is a hic (see the htaccess file below).

 

Why does the second url not go to the correct page?  How can I modify the rewriterule to do so without affecting the dynamic ->static conversion?

 

Can the actual htaccess file have negative impact on SEO?

 

 

http://www.paulgodard.com/Content_1010000000_artist.htm goes to the artist page OK

 

http://paulgodard.com/Content_1010000000_artist.htm goes to the home page NOT OK

 

 

htaccess file :

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#Removes session id from URL - site will not work if cookies are not enabled

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

 

#Redirects site from http://domain to http://www.domain (301 redirect)

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^paulgodard.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.paulgodard.com/ [R=301,L]

 

#Redirects static url (se friendly) to dynamic url (real filename)

RewriteRule ^Content_(.+)_(.+).htm$ /Alpha/Page.php?Content_ID=$1&kw=$2 [nc]

RewriteRule ^News_(.+)_(.+)_(.+).htm$ /Alpha/Page.php?Content_ID=$1&News_ID=$2&kw=$3 [nc]

 

#Redirects error to page

ErrorDocument 401 /AccessControl/AdminMessage.php?Error=401

ErrorDocument 404 /AccessControl/AdminMessage.php?Error=404

ErrorDocument 500 /AccessControl/AdminMessage.php?Error=500

 

[paulgodard]

Is this a difficult question?  Can someone help me please, I can not find any solution for the problem.

[paulgodard]

This is amazing... I found the solution...

 

There must be a $ after the first domain as well as /$1 to carry the querystring along in the rewrite rule, and the flag 'L' must be removed.  This makes sense!

 

#Redirects site from http://domain to http://www.domain (301 redirect)

#Anything that follows the domain will be passed!

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kidsofnature.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.kidsofnature.com/$1 [R=301]

 

#Redirects static url (se friendly) to dynamic url (real filename)

RewriteRule ^Content_(.+)_(.+).htm$ /Alpha/Page.php?Content_ID=$1&kw=$2 [NC]

RewriteRule ^News_(.+)_(.+)_(.+).htm$ /Alpha/Page.php?Content_ID=$1&News_ID=$2&kw=$3 [NC]

 

BUT I have another question...

 

My index.php file at the root level redirects to /Alpha/Page.php for many (good) reasons :

 

// get optional query string

$QueryString0 = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

// load Page with query string

$Link = "Alpha/Page.php";

if ($QueryString0) { $Link .= "?".$QueryString0; }

header("location:".$Link);

 

This means that I never see "www.kidsofnature.com" alone as the url but always with the "/Alpha/Page.php" appended.

 

How can I avoid the url to change while I am redirecting the page?  Via php or mod_rewrite?