Non-www to www code not working in htaccess
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I use the same rewrite code on every site to consolidate the non-www and www versions.
All sites in Joomla, linux hosting. Code is as follows:
RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} ^site.com/
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Immediately following this code, I also rewrite /index.php to /.
Thing is, I can get index.php to rewrite correctly but the non-www won't rewrite to www.
I use the same code on every site but for some reason it's not working here.
Are there common issues that interfere with rewriting a non-www to www in htaccess that could be interfering with the code I'm using above?
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You're very welcome
BTW, I use SH404SEF with Joomla too, which is pretty good, but is a paid-for product.
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Hi Jassy,
Thanks for your response. I was already using +followsymlinks.
Just tried your code and it did the trick!
Thanks a bunch
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An alternative that I've had working on Joomla sites is:
#add www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com$ [NC]
_ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [L,R=301]_
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST
#remove /index.php and ensure admin works okay
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/administrator
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]
One final thing, have you tried using
Options +FollowSymLinks
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