Generic htaccess redirect www to non-www

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I would like to redirect www example com to example com  The following htaccess code makes this happen   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www  example  com  NC  RewriteRule        http   example com  1  L R 301    But  is there a way to do this in a generic fashion without hardcoding the domain name

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Here are the rules to redirect a www URL to no-www:

#########################
# redirect www to no-www
#########################

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

Here are the rules to redirect a no-www URL to www:

#########################
# redirect no-www to www
#########################

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

Note that I used NE flag to prevent apache from escaping the query string. Without this flag, apache will change the requested URL http://www.example.com/?foo%20bar to http://www.example.com/?foo%2250bar

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There can be a lot of misinformation out there about htaccess redirects  I find   First off  make sure your site is running on Unix using Apache and not on a Windows host if you expect this code to work     RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC   RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L      Make sure there are no line spaces between each line of text  though  I have added an extra space between lines so it renders okay in this window    This is one snippet of code that can be used to direct the www version of your site to the http    version   There are other similar codes that can be used  too

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I am not sure why u want to remove www  But reverse version would be     non-www   - gt  www    if subdomain exist  wont work RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   whattimein  com RewriteRule        http   www whattimein com  1  R permanent L    And advantage of this script is   if u have something like test whattimein com or any other  enviroments for developing testing   it wont redirect U to the original enviroment

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RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1 subfolder  1  R 301 L    For subfolder

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Hi you can use following rules on your htaccess file   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   example com RewriteRule      http   www example com  1  R 301 L

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RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule         https    1  1  R    The RewriteCond captures everything in the HTTP HOST variable after the www  and saves it in  1   The RewriteRule captures the URL without the leading   and saves it in  1

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Alternative approach if  htaccess customization is not ideal option   I ve created simple redirect server for public use  Just add A or CNAME record   CNAME   r simpleredirect net A       89 221 218 22   More info  https   simpleredirect net

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Try this   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteRule          HTTP HOST  1  C  RewriteRule  www        http    1  L R 301    If the host starts with www  we stick the whole host onto the start of the URL  then take off the  www

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RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        https    1  1  R 301 L    Same as Michael s except this one works  P

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Hi you can use following rules on your htaccess file   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   example com RewriteRule      http   www example com  1  R 301 L

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For those that need to able to access the entire site WITHOUT the  www  prefix   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule   http  ENV protossl     1  REQUEST URI   L R 301    Mare sure you add this to the following file   site location  htaccess

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But if we need to do this for separate http and https   RewriteCond   HTTPS  off RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L   RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        https    1  1  R 301 L

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Complete Generic WWW handler  http https  I didn t see a complete answer  I use this to handle WWW inclusion    Generic  Doesn t require domain info  Forces WWW on primary domain  www domain com Removes WWW on subdomains  sub domain com Preserves HTTP HTTPS status  Allows individual cookies for domain   sub-domains   Please let me know how this works or if I left a loophole   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase      Force WWW  when no subdomain in host RewriteCond   HTTP HOST                  NC  RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s  off  NC  RewriteRule   http 1   www   HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   R 301 L     Remove WWW  when subdomain s  in host      RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s  off  NC  RewriteCond http 1     HTTP HOST    https      www                      NC  RewriteRule    1 3 4 5  REQUEST URI   R 301 L

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This is updated to work on Apache 2 4   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www        RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L    The only change vs Michael s is to remove the  NC   which produces the  AH00665  error      NoCase option for non-regex pattern  -f  is not supported and will be ignored

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Using  htaccess to Redirect to www or non-www   Simply put the following lines of code into your main  root  htaccess file  In both cases  just change out domain com to your own hostname   Redirect to www   lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt    RewriteEngine on   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   domain  com  NC    RewriteRule        http   wwwDOTdomainDOtcom  1  L R 301   lt  IfModule gt    Redirect to non-www   lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt    RewriteEngine on   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www  domain  com  NC    RewriteRule        http   domainDOTcom  1  L R 301   lt  IfModule gt    change DOT to

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Try this   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteRule          HTTP HOST  1  C  RewriteRule  www        http    1  L R 301    If the host starts with www  we stick the whole host onto the start of the URL  then take off the  www

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www to non www with https  RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L   RewriteCond   HTTPS   on RewriteRule      https     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   R 301 L

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If you want to do this in the httpd conf file  you can do it without mod rewrite  and apparently it s better for performance     lt VirtualHost   gt    ServerName www example com   Redirect 301   http   example com   lt  VirtualHost gt    I got that answer here  https   serverfault com questions 120488 redirect-url-within-apache-virtualhost 120507 120507

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Redirect non-www to www  both  http   https   RewriteCond   HTTPS  off RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www         NC  RewriteRule        http   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L   RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www         NC  RewriteRule        https   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L

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Added if localhost  ignore redirection  for development purpose in local environment   If not localhost AND  not https OR it   s www   redirect to https and non-www   RewriteEngine On  RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   localhost  NC  RewriteCond   HTTPS  off  OR  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteRule        https     HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L

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I am not sure why u want to remove www  But reverse version would be     non-www   - gt  www    if subdomain exist  wont work RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   whattimein  com RewriteRule        http   www whattimein com  1  R permanent L    And advantage of this script is   if u have something like test whattimein com or any other  enviroments for developing testing   it wont redirect U to the original enviroment

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The selected answer and many other solutions here dropped the the part of the url after    so basically it always redirected to main domain  at least for me   So i am adding working sample respecting full path after slash    RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1  REQUEST URI   L R 301

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I used the above rule to fwd www to no www and it works fine for the homepage  however on the internal pages they are forwarding to  index php  I found this other rule in my  htaccess file which is causing this but not sure what to do about it  Any suggestions would be great                                                    always send 404 on missing files in these folders      RewriteCond   REQUEST URI      media skin js                                                    never rewrite for existing files  directories and links      RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -l                                                  rewrite everything else to index php      RewriteRule    index php  L

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Try this   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteRule          HTTP HOST  1  C  RewriteRule  www        http    1  L R 301    If the host starts with www  we stick the whole host onto the start of the URL  then take off the  www

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RewriteEngine on   if host value starts with  www   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www     redirect the request to  non-www  RewriteRule   http   example com  REQUEST URI   NE L R    If you want to remove www on both http and https   use the following    RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www   RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s  offs RewriteRule   http 1   example com  REQUEST URI   NE L R    This redirects  Non ssl   http   www example com   to   http   example com   And SSL   https   www example com   to   https   example com   on apache 2 4   you can accomplish this  using a Redirect with if directive    lt if    HTTP HOST     www example com   gt  Redirect   http   example com   lt  if gt

User · Answer

Alternative approach if  htaccess customization is not ideal option   I ve created simple redirect server for public use  Just add A or CNAME record   CNAME   r simpleredirect net A       89 221 218 22   More info  https   simpleredirect net

User · Answer

Using  htaccess to Redirect to www or non-www   Simply put the following lines of code into your main  root  htaccess file  In both cases  just change out domain com to your own hostname   Redirect to www   lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt    RewriteEngine on   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   domain  com  NC    RewriteRule        http   wwwDOTdomainDOtcom  1  L R 301   lt  IfModule gt    Redirect to non-www   lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt    RewriteEngine on   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www  domain  com  NC    RewriteRule        http   domainDOTcom  1  L R 301   lt  IfModule gt    change DOT to

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The only way I got it to work     RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   site  ro RewriteRule      http   www site ro  1  R 301 L

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This is updated to work on Apache 2 4   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www        RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L    The only change vs Michael s is to remove the  NC   which produces the  AH00665  error      NoCase option for non-regex pattern  -f  is not supported and will be ignored

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The selected answer and many other solutions here dropped the the part of the url after    so basically it always redirected to main domain  at least for me   So i am adding working sample respecting full path after slash    RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1  REQUEST URI   L R 301

User · Answer

But if we need to do this for separate http and https   RewriteCond   HTTPS  off RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L   RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        https    1  1  R 301 L

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RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        https    1  1  R 301 L    Same as Michael s except this one works  P

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use  Javascript   jQuery     similar behavior as an HTTP redirect window location replace  http   www stackoverflow com       similar behavior as clicking on a link window location href    http   stackoverflow com     Or  htaccess   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   Rewritecond   HTTP HOST   www  yoursite  com   NC  RewriteRule        https   yoursite com  1  R 301 L    and The PHP method    protocol       SERVER  HTTPS          on      https        http       if  substr   SERVER  HTTP HOST    0  4       www          header  Location     protocol  www     SERVER      HTTP HOST         SERVER  REQUEST URI         exit      Ajax    ajax       type   POST       url  reqUrl      data  reqBody      dataType   json       success  function data  textStatus            if  data redirect                   data redirect contains the string URL to redirect to             window location href   data redirect                    else                  data form contains the HTML for the replacement form                 myform   replaceWith data form

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RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule         https    1  1  R    The RewriteCond captures everything in the HTTP HOST variable after the www  and saves it in  1   The RewriteRule captures the URL without the leading   and saves it in  1

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Here are the rules to redirect a www URL to no-www:

#########################
# redirect www to no-www
#########################

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

Here are the rules to redirect a no-www URL to www:

#########################
# redirect no-www to www
#########################

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

Note that I used NE flag to prevent apache from escaping the query string. Without this flag, apache will change the requested URL http://www.example.com/?foo%20bar to http://www.example.com/?foo%2250bar

User · Answer

There can be a lot of misinformation out there about htaccess redirects  I find   First off  make sure your site is running on Unix using Apache and not on a Windows host if you expect this code to work     RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC   RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L      Make sure there are no line spaces between each line of text  though  I have added an extra space between lines so it renders okay in this window    This is one snippet of code that can be used to direct the www version of your site to the http    version   There are other similar codes that can be used  too

User · Answer

RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1 subfolder  1  R 301 L    For subfolder

User · Answer

use  Javascript   jQuery     similar behavior as an HTTP redirect window location replace  http   www stackoverflow com       similar behavior as clicking on a link window location href    http   stackoverflow com     Or  htaccess   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   Rewritecond   HTTP HOST   www  yoursite  com   NC  RewriteRule        https   yoursite com  1  R 301 L    and The PHP method    protocol       SERVER  HTTPS          on      https        http       if  substr   SERVER  HTTP HOST    0  4       www          header  Location     protocol  www     SERVER      HTTP HOST         SERVER  REQUEST URI         exit      Ajax    ajax       type   POST       url  reqUrl      data  reqBody      dataType   json       success  function data  textStatus            if  data redirect                   data redirect contains the string URL to redirect to             window location href   data redirect                    else                  data form contains the HTML for the replacement form                 myform   replaceWith data form

User · Answer

RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule         https    1  1  R    The RewriteCond captures everything in the HTTP HOST variable after the www  and saves it in  1   The RewriteRule captures the URL without the leading   and saves it in  1

User · Answer

Redirect non-www to www  both  http   https   RewriteCond   HTTPS  off RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www         NC  RewriteRule        http   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L   RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www         NC  RewriteRule        https   www   HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L

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If you are forcing www  in url or forcing ssl prototcol  then try to use possible variations in htaccess file  such as    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase        Force WWW      RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   example  com RewriteRule      http   www example com  1  R 301 L      Force SSL      RewriteCond   SERVER PORT  80  RewriteRule        https   example com  1  R L      Block  IP s     Order Deny Allow Deny from 256 251 0 139 Deny from 199 127 0 259

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www to non www with https  RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule        http    1  1  R 301 L   RewriteCond   HTTPS   on RewriteRule      https     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   R 301 L

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Complete Generic WWW handler  http https  I didn t see a complete answer  I use this to handle WWW inclusion    Generic  Doesn t require domain info  Forces WWW on primary domain  www domain com Removes WWW on subdomains  sub domain com Preserves HTTP HTTPS status  Allows individual cookies for domain   sub-domains   Please let me know how this works or if I left a loophole   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase      Force WWW  when no subdomain in host RewriteCond   HTTP HOST                  NC  RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s  off  NC  RewriteRule   http 1   www   HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   R 301 L     Remove WWW  when subdomain s  in host      RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s  off  NC  RewriteCond http 1     HTTP HOST    https      www                      NC  RewriteRule    1 3 4 5  REQUEST URI   R 301 L

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Added if localhost  ignore redirection  for development purpose in local environment   If not localhost AND  not https OR it   s www   redirect to https and non-www   RewriteEngine On  RewriteBase   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   localhost  NC  RewriteCond   HTTPS  off  OR  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteRule        https     HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L

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If you are forcing www  in url or forcing ssl prototcol  then try to use possible variations in htaccess file  such as    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase        Force WWW      RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   example  com RewriteRule      http   www example com  1  R 301 L      Force SSL      RewriteCond   SERVER PORT  80  RewriteRule        https   example com  1  R L      Block  IP s     Order Deny Allow Deny from 256 251 0 139 Deny from 199 127 0 259

User · Answer

For those that need to able to access the entire site WITHOUT the  www  prefix   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule   http  ENV protossl     1  REQUEST URI   L R 301    Mare sure you add this to the following file   site location  htaccess

User · Answer

The only way I got it to work     RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   site  ro RewriteRule      http   www site ro  1  R 301 L

User · Answer

Try this   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www    NC  RewriteRule          HTTP HOST  1  C  RewriteRule  www        http    1  L R 301    If the host starts with www  we stick the whole host onto the start of the URL  then take off the  www

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RewriteEngine on   if host value starts with  www   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www     redirect the request to  non-www  RewriteRule   http   example com  REQUEST URI   NE L R    If you want to remove www on both http and https   use the following    RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www   RewriteCond   HTTPS s  on s  offs RewriteRule   http 1   example com  REQUEST URI   NE L R    This redirects  Non ssl   http   www example com   to   http   example com   And SSL   https   www example com   to   https   example com   on apache 2 4   you can accomplish this  using a Redirect with if directive    lt if    HTTP HOST     www example com   gt  Redirect   http   example com   lt  if gt

User · Answer

RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   www         NC  RewriteRule         https    1  1  R    The RewriteCond captures everything in the HTTP HOST variable after the www  and saves it in  1   The RewriteRule captures the URL without the leading   and saves it in  1

User · Answer

If you want to do this in the httpd conf file  you can do it without mod rewrite  and apparently it s better for performance     lt VirtualHost   gt    ServerName www example com   Redirect 301   http   example com   lt  VirtualHost gt    I got that answer here  https   serverfault com questions 120488 redirect-url-within-apache-virtualhost 120507 120507

User · Answer

I used the above rule to fwd www to no www and it works fine for the homepage  however on the internal pages they are forwarding to  index php  I found this other rule in my  htaccess file which is causing this but not sure what to do about it  Any suggestions would be great                                                    always send 404 on missing files in these folders      RewriteCond   REQUEST URI      media skin js                                                    never rewrite for existing files  directories and links      RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -l                                                  rewrite everything else to index php      RewriteRule    index php  L

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