DougF

Wondering when cPanel will be updated to 11.34? The feature I am most interested in is the new ability to configure the email retention period. Dealing with clients who allow their email accounts to fill with old email and shut down their hosting account is a major pain...

Usually these redirect challenges are always just "one thing" away from success... Originally I tried escaping the colon after http but made no difference. Never though of the double backslash. At this point your solution is catching what Google is looking for so I'm happy. It is such an easy error to make I wonder why Google does not check and strip off domain from form entry on their analytics site.

Solved by Tony. Thought I'd post for future reference. Rather than fighting with Apache just create what Google is looking for and then create redirect that Apache likes... 1) Create bogus folder that Google is searching for: /home/~example/public_html/http:/www.example.com/ 2)create a 301 redirect htaccess in bogus folder: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml [R=permanent,L]

Thanks Tony, Tried that one but Apache's default behavior is to strip out the domain from the path. This removes the duplicate domain name and then throws infinite loop error because the redirect is on the same file name. There must be a command to force Apache to use the path as provided. I'm reading through Apache doc's but they are not exactly user friendly...

I need help creating an htaccess redirect from http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml to http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml Yes, the duplicate domain name is intentional. An incorrect file name was entered for Google analytics sitemap and the beast keeps searching for this file even though the file name was corrected long ago. Tried the following but can't get it to work: RewriteRule /http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml [R=301,L] Apache seems to strip the duplicate domain name from the redirect and then throws a loop error. Any ideas how it can be forced to view the duplicate domain name as part of the path? Thanks