Thread: .htaccess / redirect to 'www.'

I have a website that i'm currently building and both its main addresses, i.e. with 'www.' and without open up seperately, i.e. there is no redirection.
I wish to keep the 'www.' one and redirect the 'non-www.' to the 'www.', what code/commands do i have to add to the .htaccess file?
Thanks

Do you have cPanel? You can go to 'redirect' and redirect your domain without www to your domain with WWW. At least that's how I do it

Greetz

I use this one

Code:

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

does the job nicely

Actually i want to do it with htaccess. My site is on Joomla, after renaming the htaccess.txt to .htaccess i added the following code to the end :

Code:

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

Am unsure if its right. Doesn't seem to work, checked multiple sites and all have different variations of code which ultimately does the same thing.

Can some1 give me the code what they are using for this redirection on their site?
Thanks.

Edit : @ Aziz, didn't see your post before typing out this. Anyways thanks

Was reasearching a bit using Google and found the following variations of code :

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yuordomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yuordomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Currently using the second one, lets c if it works.

2nd one didn't work, Currently using the third one and it works just fine

I use the following in the .htaccess in my web's root folder:

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

I avoid the !www type rewrite conditions because they can sometimes lead to issues w/ subdomains depending on how they are implemented.

FYI, this is the one I finally settled on (after a bit of searching around):

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mywebsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Works pretty good for me (but yeah, perhaps subdomains would break)!

I added this today and it seems to work fine:

Code:

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

what does this do?

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

Originally Posted by sachin410

what does this do?

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

If a directory is symbolically linked in Linux, then +FollowSymLinks tells Apache to obey them. Sym links are basically shortcuts. For example, if /home/username/www is symbolically linked to /home/username/public_html (both are the same directory) then Apache will allow either path to work for various requests.