Change to www if not a subdomain

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Plot: I actually like www URL's but not when used with subdomain like www.whatever.example.com . First i was using two domains on my hosting account so I added a htaccess rewrite like below code.

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

Motive: Now after sometime I realised that I need a subdomain also pointed to my hosting account. But I don't want a ugly subdomain like www.whatever.example.com but at the sametime I want to redirect example.com users to www.example.com. I am unable to figure out how to do that. Anyone here.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 01 '14 at 10:06

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You can use this rule to only target your main domain:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]

Or else, to target any sub-URL down to 3 levels 'deep':

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^[^.]+\.[^.]+\.[^.]+$
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]

edited Dec 01 '14 at 10:06

BE77Y

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answered Dec 01 '14 at 07:01

anubhava

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I have two of the example.com and example2.com , the second code, should I use. – IdidntKnewIt Dec 01 '14 at 07:04
If you want add `www` to both `example.com` and `example2.com` then use 2nd rule. – anubhava Dec 01 '14 at 07:05
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Got it. Thank you so much. – IdidntKnewIt Dec 01 '14 at 07:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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Try this using .htaccess, Ref

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

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Dec 01 '14 at 07:03

Zeeshan

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Question is about adding `www` not removing `www`. – anubhava Dec 01 '14 at 07:05
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Adding www to domain but not to subdomains. – IdidntKnewIt Dec 01 '14 at 07:07

Change to www if not a subdomain

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