Force Www On Domain Using Htaccess

[driz]

Hi, I use a .htaccess file on one my websites that forces all www.domain.com to domain.com

RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -dRewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]RewriteRule ^(.*) index.phpAddHandler php5-script .php

Well ironically I have website that needs the exact opposite. If a user was to go to domain.com it auto force www.domain.comI don't understand HTACCESS at all, so any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

[redwall_hp]

You could try this:

RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -dRewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]RewriteRule ^(.*) index.phpAddHandler php5-script .php

[driz]

That code above is making all www.domain.com go to domain.com. I want to do the opposite. If a person was to type: http://mywebsite.com/ it would auto change to http://www.mywebsite.com/

[jlhaslip]

The "www" is nothing more than a re-direct to the public, web-accessible portion of your Hosting Account.There is no need to force the inclusion of the "www" in your URL's. In fact, there is a move to drop the requirement from the process, so it is not really a wise decision, in my opinion, to do what you are doing.

[driz]

The "www" is nothing more than a re-direct to the public, web-accessible portion of your Hosting Account.There is no need to force the inclusion of the "www" in your URL's. In fact, there is a move to drop the requirement from the process, so it is not really a wise decision, in my opinion, to do what you are doing.

Most websites do. For example try http://apple.com/ see how it automatically adds the WWW back on the url. same with Facebook. This is what I'm trying to do. Thanks.

[driz]

Any updates? Just to clarify I want to FORCE the www on the main domain. Thanks.

[dsonesuk]

try swapping it roundRewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[driz]

try swapping it roundRewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Nailed it. Thank you.