Non-WWW to WWW

I got the rewrite for visitors who go to mysite.com to be redirected to www.mysite.com and it works fine.

The problem is that I cannot get this to work for a specific directory.

I want users who navigate to mysite.com/directory to be redirected to www.mysite.com/directory.

This is what I have in that specific directory's .htaccess (not my root's .htaccess):

# Non-www to WWW
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com\.directory[NC]
 RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/directory/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

And for some reason, this results in a browser error telling me it is resulting in an infinite loop that will never end.

Why is that? How do I fix it?

Thanks

 

this should work for domain and subfolder.

 

Unfortunately, this doesn't work.

I'd prefer if I could control just one specific directory of the domain, because my root is a WordPress blog, so it automatically redirects to the WWW version using the permalink settings.

Is there a code I can place in the .htaccess of /directory (not the root) to redirect it to the WWW version?

Thanks for your help

 

Hey NickR25,

you can place the following code into your .htaccess file

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

this will definatly work as its working on my server

 

Hi,

You can also do something a bit more generic like

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

 

is there an error in this line
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com\.directory[NC]
must be a slash?
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com\/directory[NC]

 

None of the ones that have been posted in this thread work.

Remember, I am wanting to redirect a specific directory only; not any URL. In other words, I want mysite.com/directory to redirect to www.mysite.com/directory, but I do not want mysite.com to redirect to www.mysite.com.

Edit: Actually, I think we have a winner
This worked when I placed it in my /directory:

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

Code (markup):

 

Update: It was working at first, but I just realized it no longer works.

It tries to take me to www.mysite.com/hsphere/local/home/*****/mysite.com/directory

Why is that and how do I correct it?

 

How about:

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

Code (markup):

 

Should I put this in the .htaccess of the root or the directory?

 

Few days ago Google has indexed both - www_mysite and mysite O_0