apache redirect from non www to www

Question

I have a website that doesn\'t seem to redirect from non-www to www.

My Apache configuration is as follows:

RewriteEngine On
### re-direct t         


        

Answer 1

To remove www from your URL website use this code in your .htaccess file:

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

To force www in your website URL use this code on .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^YourSite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourSite.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.html [R=301,L]

Where YourSite.com must be replaced with your URL.

Answer 2

This is similar to many of the other suggestions with a couple enhancements:

• No need to hardcode the domain (works with vhosts that accept multiple domains or between environments)
• Preserves the scheme (http/https) and ignores the effects of previous %{REQUEST_URI} rules.

• The path portion not affected by previous RewriteRules like %{REQUEST_URI} is.

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

Answer 3

Try this:

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

Answer 4

I found it easier (and more usefull) to use ServerAlias when using multiple vhosts.

<VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    ServerAlias example.com
    ....
</VirtualHost>

This also works with https vhosts.

Answer 5

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAlias example.com
    RedirectMatch permanent ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1
</VirtualHost>

Answer 6

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

This starts with the HTTP_HOST variable, which contains just the domain name portion of the incoming URL (example.com). Assuming the domain name does not contain a www. and matches your domain name exactly, then the RewriteRule comes into play. The pattern ^(.*)$ will match everything in the REQUEST_URI, which is the resource requested in the HTTP request (foo/blah/index.html). It stores this in a back reference, which is then used to rewrite the URL with the new domain name (one that starts with www).

[NC] indicates case-insensitive pattern matching, [R=301] indicates an external redirect using code 301 (resource moved permanently), and [L] stops all further rewriting, and redirects immediately.