require www.

Baving

Hi,

Is there anyway using htaccess to redirect a domain when it is loaded by http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com

Thanks

laserlight

Yes. See www. is not deprecated: Redirection.

Actually, Apache's own URL Rewriting Guide has a slightly different example. You might want to try that instead.

NogDog

Yes. It would be something like:

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

laserlight

After looking through both examples I listed, I think that Apache's URL rewriting guide's example is better since it checks if the canonical name is used, and if not, it redirects to the canonical name, whereas the other example (and which is also NogDog's idea, though his implementation is slightly faulty) checks for the specific uncanonical form. On the other hand, that example neglects the 301 (moved permanently) code, so perhaps the best would be:

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

NogDog

I just copied an example I saw on another forum, and tested it on my personal web site, where it seemed to work OK. But give LL's example a try, since he's looked into it further than I have and perhaps actually understands it. 🙂

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NogDog

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