I have a htaccess-problem, I have submitted a Google sitemap to a site but the below htaccess-file prevent Google finding the confirmation file. How should I solve this, suppose it would work with a condition, but I´m completely lost.

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

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml

Hi,

It looks like you're trying to redirect from example.com to www.example.com, and at the same time redirect your old html pages to new php ones... is that right?

but I don't get these htaccess rules at all.... is it new and did it ever work?

Cheers,
Paz.

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Hi, yes it works, the problem was (I solved it by deleating the htaccessfile for a while) that Google sitemaps wanted a identification file. It is a html-file which didnt work, so instead of rewriting the rule-set I deleted the file. Verified the sitemap-file and undeleted the htaccess-file....

Next time add this to your .htaccess:
Here's a great .htaccess reference if you need more info.

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Hi WebGeek,

I haven't had a chance to welcome you to the forum; so welcome

That link's still broken so I've removed it... again.

Cheers,
Paz.

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Hey Paz!

Thank you for the warm welcome! It's great to be here. My apologies on the broken link! It should be working now.

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