Redirect non-www to www in htaccess

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I have this in my  htaccess file   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   example com  RewriteRule      http   www example com 1  R 301 L    but whenever I access a file on my root like http   example com robots txt it will redirect to http   www example comrobots txt    How can I correct this so that it will redirect correctly to http   www example com robots txt

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I have tested all the above solutions but not working for me, i have tried to remove the http:// and won't redirect also removed the www it redirect well, so i get confused, specially i am running all my sites under https://

So i have combined some codes together and came up with perfect solution for both http:// and https:// and www and non-www.

# HTTPS forced
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Redirect to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Hope this can help someone :)

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Two warnings Avoid 301 and prefer modern 303 or 307 response status codes  Avoid 301 Think carefully if you really need the permanent redirect indicated as  R 301  because if you decide to change it later  then the previous visitors of the page will continue to see the page of the original redirection  The permanent redirection information is frequently stored in the browser s cache and  in general  it is difficult to eliminate  reload the page do not solve the problem   Your website visitors will be stuck in the previous redirect  quot forever quot   Avoid 302 too The new version of the HTTP protocol  v1 1  added two new response status codes that can be used instead of 302   303 URL redirection but demanding to change the type of request to GET  307 URL Redirection but demanding to keep the type of request as initially sent   You can still use the code 302  non-permanent redirection  although it is considered ambiguous  In any case  most browsers implement 302 in the same way the new 303 code instructs

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Write in  htaccess        Redirect from non-www to www  remove the two lines below to enable      RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www    NC      RewriteRule        http   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L

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I believe the top answer successfully redirects non-www to www  ex  mysite com -  www mysite com   but doesn t take into account wildcard subdomains  which results in   random mysite com - gt  www random mysite com   Here s a solution with without HTTPS  HTTP  RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www mysite com   NC  RewriteRule        http  ENV protossl    www mysite com  1  L R 301     HTTP HTTPS  RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   HTTPS   on RewriteRule        -  env protocol https   RewriteCond   HTTPS    on RewriteRule        -  env protocol http   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www mysite com   NC  RewriteRule          ENV protocol    www mysite com  1  L R 301     note  I haven t tested https because I don t currently have a cert to test  but if someone can verify or optimize what I have that would be awesome

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RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www    RewriteRule        http   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L    For Https  RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s    RewriteRule        http 1   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L

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Change your configuration to this  add a slash    RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   example com   NC  RewriteRule      http   www example com  1  R 301 L     Or the solution outlined below  proposed by  absiddiqueLive  will work for any domain   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www    NC  RewriteRule        http   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L    If you need to support http and https and preserve the protocol choice try the following   RewriteRule  login   https   www   HTTP HOST  login  R 301 L    Where you replace login with checkout php or whatever URL you need to support HTTPS on   I d argue this is a bad idea though  For the reasoning please read this answer

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Here s the correct solution which supports https and http    Redirect to www RewriteCond   HTTP HOST                 RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s   RewriteRule   http 1   www   HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   L R 301   UPD   for domains like  co uk  replace RewriteCond   HTTP HOST                  with RewriteCond   HTTP HOST

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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

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This configuration worked for me in bitnami wordpress with SSL configured    Added the below under   RewriteEngine On  in file  opt bitnami apps wordpress conf httpd-app conf  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www    NC  RewriteRule   http  ENV protossl    www   HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   L R 301  RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTPS   on RewriteRule   https     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   L R 301

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Add the following code in  htaccess file   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www   RewriteRule        http   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L    URLs redirect tutorial can be found from here - Redirect non-www to www  amp  HTTP to HTTPS using  htaccess file

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If possible  add this to the main Apache configuration file  It is a lighter-weight solution  less processing required    lt VirtualHost 64 65 66 67 gt          ServerName example com         Redirect permanent   http   www example com   lt  VirtualHost gt   lt VirtualHost 64 65 66 67 gt     ServerAdmin me example com    ServerName www example com    DocumentRoot  var www example                etc   So  the separate VirtualHost for  example com  captures those requests and then permanently redirects them to your main VirtualHost  So there s no REGEX parsing with every request  and your client browsers will cache the redirect so they ll never  or rarely  request the  wrong  url again  saving you on server load   Note  the trailing slash in Redirect permanent   http   www example com   Without it  a redirect from example com asdf would redirect to http   www example comasdf instead of http   www example com asdf

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RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www  domain  com  NC  RewriteRule      http   www domain com  1  L R 301    This will redirect your domain which is not started with WWW It is not redirect your all sub domain   It is useful

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Try this  I used it in many websites  it works perfectly  Options  FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   bewebdeveloper com  RewriteRule       http   www bewebdeveloper com  1   QSA L R 301

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