These problems occur whenever .htaccess is set to reroute all traffic from http://example.com to http://www.example.com. I tested this behavior on a clean installation. To reproduce the error on the taxonomy module:

I didn't know whether I should have posted this into Drupal core or not, because it involves two modules. I've ran into two problems so far:

  1. The autocomplete feature of the taxonomy "tags" feature fails to work.
  2. The Views module sends me to an odd http page that looks like an Ajax request every time I update a filter, argument, field, etc. before saving.

The taxonomy problem is bearable, but the problem with Views is making it increasingly annoying to create or update any and all views.

  1. Start with a clean installation of Drupal.
  2. Go to the non "www" version of the site. Create a vocabulary, enable the free tagging feature, and create a few stories to ensure that autocomplete works.
  3. Set .htaccess to redirect example.com to www.example.com.
  4. Try creating a new story. The autocomplete feature should now fail. IE7 reports an error.

PHP: 5.2.6
Drupal path: site root (e.g. public_html)

Thanks!

Comments

savioret’s picture

savioret commented

I have also found this problem, and my solution was always removing www
Is there any new ?

dddave’s picture

dddave commented

@ could you please confirm that this issue still exists with the current version of D6 and update the version info or change the status?

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This is what I have in .htaccess in Drupal 6.20. Taxonomy and views modules work normally.

 # If your site can be accessed both with and without the 'www.' prefix, you
 # can use one of the following settings to redirect users to your preferred
 # URL, either WITH or WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix. Choose ONLY one option:
 #
 # To redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix,
 # (http://example.com/... will be redirected to http://www.example.com/...)
 # uncomment the following:

 # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
 # RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Marking as fixed. Please feel free to re-open if the issue persists.