Redirect from www.domain.com to domain.com

I should know this, but I don't. I would like to be able to set up my .htaccess so that if somebody types www.domain.com, they are given a 301 redirect to domain.com instead.

I'm sure it's cake, but I'm not finding what I'm looking for on google.

Thanks,
Amy

Hi Amy,
the rewrite rule will look like:

Code:

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

It will make a 301 redirect to the *corresponding* URL (http://www.domain.com/the-page.html => http://domain.com/the-page.html).
By the way, usually the redirection is done in the opposite direction (thus having "www.*" as the main domain).

In my case, I do the opposite; non www go to www.

If you want to do that, you can use:

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

Works perfectly. Thank you

Amy

How about this one:

I have a subdomain that is accessable via the main website with the subdirectory named as the subdomain.

ie both as
http://www.domain.com/forum
and
http://forum.domain.com/

I currently have the following, but it creates issues with vbseo:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/forum/(.*)$ http://forum.domain.com/

the url becomes:
http://forum.domain.com/?vbseourl=specificforumname/


Suggestions please.

Hi,

if you want to have "forum.domain.com" as the main forums location, you should move your forum files to the document root for this subdomain, define vbroot in vB admincp correspondingly and then just leave a rewrite rule in the .htaccess at the old place.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hi,

if you want to have "forum.domain.com" as the main forums location, you should move your forum files to the document root for this subdomain, define vbroot in vB admincp correspondingly and then just leave a rewrite rule in the .htaccess at the old place.

Sorry, a misunderstanding there. The forum is in the root of http://forum.domain.com/, however, as mentioned, it is also accessable via http://www.domain.com/forum due to the host setup for the domain.

Obviously an unsatisfactory situation which I wish to remidy via an htaccess redirect in the http://www.domain.com root directory, or one in the 'root' directory of the forum would work as well, checking to see if it was in fact the root of the subdomain, and not the directory of the base.

@T2DMan:

Do you have a robots.txt exclusion for the /forum directory in place as a backup for now?

Sometimes the obvious eludes. I need to consult myself once every so often . Thanks. Appreciated. But the htaccess still essential....

Ok, the problem has been solved with adding the following to the forums/.htaccess:

Code:

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