Apache Running On Windows Server - 301 Redirect in .htaccess?

Hi,

Here's the situation.

We have apache installed on a Windows Server, and have sucessfully setup a WP blog as well as a static website.

Wordpress2.5 has built in canonical URL's via PHP, and is working fine. Our problem is forcing the 301 on the rest of the website and it's subdirectories.

I have tried forcing a 301 redirect for canonical URLS (change non-www urls to www) and with each attempt, the site either returns a 500 or works fine, but doesn't do the writing.

Heres the code in the .htaccess

##################################################
# CANONICAL HOSTNAME REDIRECT (non-www to www)   #
##################################################

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / 
rewritecond %{http_host} ^mydomain\.com [NC]
rewriterule ^(.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L, R=301]

Code (markup):

*Obviously I am replacing mydomain.com with.... my domain

I'd appreciate any help with this as I've been scratching my head on it. I've got a feeling the problem lies in that this is apache running on windows. I've only ever run *nix servers + apache before, so Im not really sure what needs to be done different?

Thanks

 

just checked with phpinfo() and mod_rewrite IS loaded.... however if I use this code in the .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
.......
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

then I get a 500 error..... ?

 

nvm, figured it out. The rewrite rules only work if they are placed in the apache httpd.conf file.... ?

 

Its not working because your host is not supporting CANONICAL redirection