Wordpress .htacess problem

Some are my pages in google are indexed as:

http://www.mydomain.com/page/

AND

http://mydomain.com/page/

I tried to do a force redirect in order to avoid duplicate content using this .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
#
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

# END WordPress

The problem is that have both rewrite rules (SEO rewrite & force www to non-www) causes a page such as mydomain.com/page/ to redirect to mydomain.com/index.php

Is there a way to have the redirects not interfere with each other?

 

thus mydomain.com/page/ exist?

 

Have you tried plugins like enforce www preference?

 

I just installed it. Just what I needed

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

 

plugin works well thanks

 

I've been having a problem with this plugin. It works great; I check it a few hours later and it has stopped working. I am also running wp-cache manager.

When I go into the cache manager and clear the cached pages it starts working again for a while anyway. Rinse and repeat.

Can someone enlighten me? Thanks

 

im having the same problem

 

If I disable the caching, clear the cached pages, and then deactivate the plugin my problem is fixed. I really don't see a big performance drop on the site with wp-cache off so, for now I am just going to leave it. I'll have to look into why these plugins conflict with each other later.

If anyone has a work around please post. thanks.

 

it's gonna take some to clear the google cache so don't worry about it. Just use the VIMF's code at #5. Though now totally necessary here but if you want you can use no-www wordpress plugin.

 

I have been running for a while and I can't see a performance hit with removing wp-cache. (Just eyeballing it anyway.) I opted to include the www. Anyway, thanks for your response.

I noted from the links on your signature line that you are not redirecting to the non-WWW site with your domains either.

thanks again...