CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpapache.htaccessmod-rewritehttp-redirect
Justin
Justin

Reputation: 2530

Best way to force WWW with PHP and not HTACCESS

I am trying to force WWW. into my domain name, but by using PHP vs. HTACCESS like I have below. Is there any issues by doing it with PHP vs. HTACCESS? Does anyone have any code on how to set this up in the best possible manor?

#for all requests on mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} mydomain\.ca$ [NC]
#if they are not for the www.mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.ca$ [NC]
#301 redirect to www.mydomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.ca/$1 [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3235

Answers (2)

xiidea
xiidea

Reputation: 3394

For enforcing www in your url, if possible .htaccess should be your choice. It will give you better performance!! Anyway, if you really want to use php code for this you can use following code snippet:

if ((strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 'www.') === false))
{
    header('Location: http://www.'.$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
    exit();
}

For more generic .htaccess redirect code would be 

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

Here is the reference

  1. htaccess
  2. PHP redirect

Upvotes: 5

Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 2536

Is this what you want?

$domain= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"];
$uri=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; 
if($domain == "example.com"){
    header("Location: www.example.com$uri");
}

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions