mod_rewrite with non-www to www for all deep links

jnyunt · 08-16-2011, 01:46 AM

I am still struggling to get non-www to www.
At the moment I have following code to redirect from non-www to www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It works totally fine for home page but not for other deep links, such as http://domain.com/city/Sydney.php, they are still going to non-www pages. What 's the best approach I could use to solve it?

Thanks in advance

bathory · 08-16-2011, 03:06 AM

Hi,

Your rewrite looks fine. Are you sure it's not working? Maybe you need to clear your browser cache,
You can also use the following rule:

Code:

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Regards

jnyunt · 08-16-2011, 03:45 AM

Hi bathory
Good to see u again. Yep I did remove ^ and $ like you suggested, no function was changed and still working as before, still redirecting non-www home page to www. but other pages still not working. I dont think it was cache, I cleared and even tested with other browser that I never used before. If you type in google as "site:domain.com" , all the non-www pages will come up and try going to one of the the page if it makes any different to you.

Thanks again

bathory · 08-16-2011, 04:15 AM

Doh,

What happens if you go the other way around?

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L]

BTW "R=301" is not really needed as it's in fact an external rewrite.

jnyunt · 08-16-2011, 07:44 AM

it is same thing, still going to non-www

bathory · 08-16-2011, 08:34 AM

Strange, it should work either way. Try the apache examples to see if you get lucky.
You can enable rewrite logging and check where the RewriteCond fails

Code:

RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog rewrite_log

jnyunt · 08-16-2011, 06:02 PM

Hi Bathory,

I got it working now. I got another .htaccess in city folder, which has following,

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)$ $1.php

to redirect any file with or without .php to filename.php. Somehow it was stuffing it up. so I removed city/.htaccess and work fine.
Thanks again for your help .. I will read the apache examples again to get better understand of it.