Trying to use www. in domain name via .htaccess

diablo · Jul 7, 2016

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 · Jul 7, 2016

Tried this too:

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

Adam H · Jul 7, 2016

This is what I use on the majority of mine.

Code:

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 · Jul 7, 2016

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 · Jul 7, 2016

diablo said:
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