Redirecting the xxx.com to www.xxx.com

Hi,

I noticed today that my website can be visited via both www and without www url.

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.msxlabs\.org
RewriteRule (.+) http://www.msxlabs.org%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

It's redirecting the file requests to www version but i want to disable direct msxlabs.org accessing.

Example:
msxlabs.org/legend.php is redirected to www.msxlabs.org/legend.php

Domain access:
msxlabs.org - www.msxlabs.org

What's wrong or missing?

Btw, vbseo.com is redirected to www.vbseo.com

Apache 2.2.6 (PHP 5.2.5)

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

What is the entire contents of the .htaccess in the root of the site?

The lines you need would be:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.msxlabs\.org
RewriteRule (.*) MsXLabs Hi-Tech Forum - MaviKaranlik.com: “Karanl???n Mavi Yüzü...” [L,R=301]

Code:

<Directory /home/msxorg/public_html>
Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.msxlabs\.org
RewriteRule (.+) http://www.msxlabs.org%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.msxlabs.org/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.msxlabs.org$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|swf|mp3|mpeg|mpg|ram|rm|wma|wav|asx|wmv|avi|mov|zip|rar|exe)$ http://www.msxlabs.org [NC,R,L]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
#ErrorDocument 404 /forum/ [R=301,L]
</Directory>

<Directory /home/msxorg/public_html/forum>
Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.msxlabs\.org
RewriteRule (.+) http://www.msxlabs.org%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.msxlabs.org/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.msxlabs.org$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|swf|mp3|mpeg|mpg|ram|rm|wma|wav|asx|wmv|avi|mov|zip|rar|exe)$ http://www.msxlabs.org [NC,R,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admineu/|modmsx/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admineu|modmsx|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]
</Directory>

<Directory /home/msxorg/public_html/forum/tags>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ index.php?tag=$1 [NC,QSA,L]
</Directory>

Ok, we'd updated the related lines in the past because of some issues and now it's working with your advise.

When I tried to use that same code you suggested for redirection it didn't work right in my case. This is what I put in my .htaccess file:

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

As you can see, I want to forward requests for pimprig.com to pcapex.com. I also have a bunch of subdomains I need to do this for as well. However, when I used those lines of code in my .htaccess file and try to access my site at any url, it displays a Red Hat Linux default test page?! Any other ideas?

EDIT // I uncommented the rewrite rules for the forum and that subdomain now works great. Anyone trying to go to a url at forums.pimprig.com are forwarded to the same URL at forums.pcapex.com. Why in the world won't it work for the root domain?

It should be:

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


That will redirect anything that is NOT www.pcapex.com to www.pcapex.com. The ! means NOT.