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[ffredrik]

Hello,

I have a shop located in the /shop directory of my site. Visitors enter www.example.com
to reach the shop, so I have a .htaccess file like this:

CODE

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.example.com/shop/index.php

There is also a file www.example.com/index.html containing only the
Google analytics stuff.

I also have a blog located in www.example.com/blog, also with an index.html
that transfers to the actual blog site.

All this works as intented with one annoying exeption.

I can enter the blog directly via www.example.com/blog. The problem comes
when using the RSS feed for the blog. The blog post is displayed, but then transfers
immedeately to the web site's home page.

I have a strong feeling this problem is in .htaccess.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[chrishirst]

don't use .htaccess, simply put a PHP redirect on the index page.

BTW your GA code in the index.html isn't doing anything, because htaccess is read BEFORE a page is served.

[Randy]

I can enter the blog directly via www.example.com/blog. The problem comes
when using the RSS feed for the blog. The blog post is displayed, but then transfers
immedeately to the web site's home page.

I have a strong feeling this problem is in .htaccess.

If the blog post actually displays at all before a redirect fires, it's not an .htaccess issue. As Chris mentioned above, .htaccess level things happen before there's every a page load, so if that was .htaccess you'd never see the post at all. Sounds like there may be some redirect happening in the rss feed or possibly something with a wrong url address entered. Typically you'd be looking either for a meta refresh instruction or some sort of Javascript redirect. Those are the ones that are usually used to provide a delayed redirect.