HTACCESS: Redirect requests without www to www - example.com to www.example.com
Question by Compi | 2017-10-25 at 16:57
At the moment, my website is accessible via two different ways. A request for http://example.com as well as for http://www.example.com are both leading to my site - and that for each single page!
Therefore, my website is effectively reachable via two different addresses or domains. Gladly, I would like to redirect all calls to my domain without www to the domain with www. So, for example, the request for http://example.com should be redirected to http://www.example.com.
Can someone explain how to do that? I think the best way would be using and .htaccess file.
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Just use the following Redirect in your .htaccess file (a file with the name .htaccess in the root folder of your website):
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]Of course, you have to change example.com to the name of your domain in order to use this example.
The Rewrite-Condition matches all cases not starting with "www.example.com" and then they will be redirected to http://www.example.com. With %{REQUEST_URI} you make sure that you do not lose any parts of the further URL. The HTTP-Status-Code 301 (Moved Permanently) tells every requester that your page can from now on only be found under the new address.
2017-10-25 at 18:38