Comments on: 301 redirect non-www to www

By: Huskey

Huskey — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:49:21 +0000

Sorry for double post. http gets translated to a link and deletes the $.

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

Huskey — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:44:13 +0000

The correct (and complete) form to use for non-www to www is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.com/1 [R,L]

Similar, for www to non-www:

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

The $ sign marks a line end, therefore your rule will never trigger for a http://domain.com/something page.

Lior — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:12:53 +0000

Will that work for all pages, or just the home page?

I did it, and the only redirect I got is from http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com

Art — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:54:33 +0000

Thanks for the tip, i have used it on my paintings site to redirect the non www url to the www url.

thanks

Yan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:08:34 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Just did it on my sites. Was losing a lot of backlink juice because some would bookmark as www, while some w/o it.

Michael Benson — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:00:39 +0000

You’d have to use;

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

Paul Findlay — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:52:04 +0000

What would the reverse of this be? i.e. if you wanted to send all visitors to http://www.example.co.uk to http://example.co.uk