Trying to use www. in domain name via .htaccess

[diablo]

Really puzzled by this.

I've added this code to my .htaccess file:

# Always use www in the domain
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z.]+)?domainname\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.domainname.co.uk%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

But it doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

 

[diablo]

Tried this too:

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

 

[Adam H]

This is what I use on the majority of mine.

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

Edit , sorry just saw you used that in your second post. Above is slightly different though.

 

[diablo]

Thanks Adam. I think I'll contact my host because that should work shouldn't it? Although I see my second example is slightly different to yours so I'll try it.

Edit tried yours but still no www. showing

 

[Adam H]

Thanks Adam. I think I'll contact my host because that should work shouldn't it? Although I see my second example is slightly different to yours spo I'll try it.

Yes it should, try my example above as it is very slightly different to yours. If that doesnt work your host must have some weird config. I assume you are doing it from the root domain and not some subdirectory like /blog or /forum. Providing you are doing it from the root folder the above should work.

Also might be worth clearing your cookies and cache, many of times ive got wound up with things not working only to find they are working..........just my cache was playing up

 

[diablo]

Found out the problem. My .htaccess was called .htaccess.htm.... Doh

 

[mat]

Found out the problem. My .htaccess was called .htaccess.htm.... Doh

So annoying when you spend hours trying to work out why something isn't working and then notice something like that!!!