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user3252618
user3252618

Reputation: 1

How to redirect multiple domains from non-www to www in htaccess

I have 5 unique unrelated domains. In the main domain (hosting package has root one with other domains in folders) I need to redirect all non-www urls to www. I used this code in my .htaccess file on the main domain:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.co.za
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.co.za/$1 [R=301,L]

It worked for the main domain, but now makes all my other domains (eg www.myothersite.com ) forward to an url like this:

//mysite.co.za/myotherdomain.com/home

How can I prevent this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1306

Answers (2)

avarx
avarx

Reputation: 519

Short and incl. HTTPS

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 1

Kristof Feys
Kristof Feys

Reputation: 1842

The right way to do this is:

# enable rewrite engine
RewriteEngine on
# if requested hostname does NOT start with "www."
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
# get hostname to %1 variable
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z]+\.[a-z]+)
# prepend "www." to requested hostname and file
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

If you want to be more specific and only include certain domains, use:

# enable rewrite engine
RewriteEngine on
# if requested hostname does NOT start with "www."
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
# and if one of these hostnames, then get it to %1 variable
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain1\.com|domain2\.com|mysite\.co\.za)
# prepend "www." to requested hostname and file
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

So in the RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain1\.com|domain2\.com|mysite\.co\.za) line you would add all domains that need to be redirected.

Upvotes: 0

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