.htaccess global redirect issue

[theonemanyuri]

I'm having some problems with my .htaccess global redirect. I just want to direct example.com to www.example.com. My usual way of doing this in .htaccess didn't work so I changed it slightly to the suggested code from the hosting company:

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

Is the code alright? Is it possibly something server side stopping it from working? Any help much appreciated, it's not really my forte...

 

[Admin]

//Rewrite to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com[nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

 

[Systreg]

I was given this by someone on here, note the bit about saving in the file in lowercase, rather than capitals that I did, see post #7:

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/scripts-coding/98067-htaccess-help.html

Which did the trick for me:

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

 

[theonemanyuri]

Still no joy, could need time to update I guess..?

 

[Admin]

Still no joy, could need time to update I guess..?

No if you are typing both the URLs in your browser the redirect would be instant.

PM site details if you want me to take a look.

Admin

 

[theonemanyuri]

Cheers, PM'd

 

[theonemanyuri]

Just to update this for anyone reading, .htaccess isn't allowed on a 50webs free account, so not a code issue...