Need Help Understanding .htaccess file

[livninctry]

Now that I am up and running at www.hoaconnections.com and have made sure that the settings allow for the search engines to find the site, I am still having a problem.

The google bot simulators at xml-sitemaps.com do not seem to see http://www.hoaconnections.com, but have no problem with http://hoaconnections.com.

I have traced the problem to the .htaccess file and have added code to make sure that it is using a 301 redirect (I think). Here is my code:


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

It seems to me that I should be worried that www. does not register but without the www. everything is fine. When I look at the different crawl results I can't help but think that half my site is not being seen. Any help or words of wisdom are greatly appreciated.

Brian

[Colin]

Is this something to do with the Suffusion theme? I think not.

You might be better off asking at somewhere like TechGuy forum or even at Wordpress forum.

[livninctry]

I was not sure if the suffusion theme made any edits to the .htaccess file. So, I wanted to ask here first. If suffusion does not modify the .htaccess then I will most definitely take this question to another forum.

Brian

[DonnaM]

Can someone please answer these questions directly?

Does the Suffusion theme use the .htaccess file?

If so, has it modified it from the original wordpress .htaccess file and to what degree, ie. what does it exactly do for the Suffusion theme?

GoDaddy is trying to tell me that the cause of my site being slow seems to be the redirects in the .htaccess file. He said this was "theme-related".

Thank you for any light shed on this matter.

[sayontan]

Does the Suffusion theme use the .htaccess file?

Easy answer: no. It definitely doesn't write to it, if that is what you are asking. And the only thing reading from it is WP itself and potentially some plugins - not Suffusion.