htaccess does not understand ^www\. rule , if paramters are appended to url

Question

.htaccess does not understand ^www\\. rule

#do not use this, because i want to redirect from https://www.somedomain.com
#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off 
         


        

Answer 1

You have an additional condition with [OR] that can cause too many redirects. Fix it by using:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.somedomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ https://somedomain.com [L,R=301]

Completely clear browser cache before testing this.