HOW TO: rewrite non www to www on all addon domains and excluding sub-domains

HOW TO: rewrite non www to www on all addon domains and excluding sub-domains:

I just spent several hours working this out, having failed to find it on the web anywhere. I figured I'd post it here. If anyone knows of any problem with using this please point it out.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*)\.(com|co\.uk)
RewriteRule ^.*$     http://www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=permanent,L]

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This will rewrite all addon domains on a hosting account to www.domain.com versions if it's in the root folder. (and your hosting is setup similar to mine).
e.g.
domain.com => www.domain.com
domain.co.uk => www.domain.co.uk
domain2.com => www.domain2.com
etc. If you want more TLDs then add them in the brackets, e.g. (com|co\.uk|ca|co\.cz)

It also doesn't rewrite subdomains to www
e.g.
forums.domain.com => forums.domain.com

Hope this helps someone.

J.

 

Sweet...that might be exactly what I'm looking for. Will try it out once I get the rest of my mod rewrite code working.

 

mmm.... warm fuzzy feeling...

 

oh gawsh... I been working on something like this for days LOL

many thanks..

 

Days? I've been working YEARS.... Fantastic post.

I do need a little tweaking though. I just need my base url to re-direct to a full www url. In other words, if someone surfs to "http://somnia.com", I need a redirect to "http://www.somnia.com", and that's it!

hajamie, please help? Or anyone really....

 

The code Hajamie wrote does that. But as a bonus if someone types http://somnia.com/folder/file.html it will redirect to http://www.somnia.com/folder/file.html

So it should work for you too.

 

I love you all in a very intense, heterosexual, you-fixed-my-problems way.

But it doesn't seem to be working. I'm testing on my local machine, Windows XP Pro. I've added the following domains to my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 jokers.com
127.0.0.1 www.jokers.com

Code (markup):

Then the directive given above, in several places. I have also made sure to include the following:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Code (markup):

Must my server name be defined as "www.jokers.com"? (I even tried that, and it still didn't work.)

 

Idiot.

I didn't have the following:

RewriteEngine On

Code (markup):

Thanks for the help.

 

I try this on another domain and it makes the page go blank, it does redirect, but blank page

 

where? what else is in your htaccess file?

 

looks to be just frontpage stuff

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.*********.com
AuthUserFile /home/sites/*********/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/sites/*********/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

 

ah wait, I got it, done hard refresh on browser and now works

 

Sweet
That gets me a lot, I spent ages a while ago changing things in my htaccess to get something working, only to discover I just had to hit refresh. D'oh