Redirect non-www to www in .htaccess

Question

I have this in my .htaccess file:

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

but whenever I

Answer 1

The following example works on both ssl and non-ssl and is much faster as you use just one rule to manage http and https

RewriteEngine on


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s on(s)|offs()
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,L,R]

[Tested]

This will redirect

http

• http://example.com

to

• http://www.example.com

https

• https://example.com

to

• https://www.example.com