Need Help - Htaccess - rewrite www to http

SuperBlackHat

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• Aug 17, 2010

• #1

I want to make www.mydomain.com redirect to http://mydomain.com. Does anyone know how to do this properly? I tried:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mydomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com [R=301,L]

The browser told me:

Too many redirects occurred trying to open "http://mydomain.com/". This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

Does anyone know the right code to use?

 

Last edited: Aug 17, 2010

SuperBlackHat

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• Aug 17, 2010

• #2

After a bit of searching, I found the solution for anyone curious:

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

Cheers

 

Entrepreneur

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Oct 12, 2007

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• Aug 17, 2010

• #3

This is mine and it works fine. The only difference I can see it the RewriteBase / and the exclamation mark before condition?

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

EDIT: LOL, beat me to it.

 

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zestoi

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• Aug 17, 2010

• #4

Entrepreneur said:

This is mine and it works fine. The only difference I can see it the RewriteBase / and the exclamation mark before condition?

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

EDIT: LOL, beat me to it.

Click to expand...

this is the correct solution.

your first example meant if the URI is not exactly http://www.mydomain.com then redirect... so will create a loop

your second example means if the URI starts with mydomain.com then redirect... so i don't see how it will work for http://www.mydomain.com

the example by Entrepreneur means if the URI starts with http://www.mydomain.com then redirect...

so really not sure how your working example actually works... having said that i am knackered and need to sleep

 

SuperBlackHat

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• Aug 17, 2010

• #5

so are you saying my code is wrong? I tested it out and it seemed to be working fine

 

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zestoi

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• Aug 18, 2010

• #6

i just tried this and it didnt work - did nothing at all in fact... (domain name removed obviously)....

Code:

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

that's basically your example isn't it?

 

SuperBlackHat

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• Aug 18, 2010

• #7

i dont know, when i test my site in the browser, it seems to work with no problems that i can see at least. the www redirects to http without a hitch.

 

SuperBlackHat

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• Aug 18, 2010

• #8

ok this is odd.... if i type in www.mydomain.com in the browser, it stays there at www, without redirecting. Im trying entrepreneurs code and this is the result im getting.

 

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zestoi

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• Aug 19, 2010

• #9

SuperBlackHat said:

ok this is odd.... if i type in http://www.mydomain.com in the browser, it stays there at www, without redirecting. Im trying entrepreneurs code and this is the result im getting.

Click to expand...

exactly. your code won't do anything nasty if you dont put in the www but also wont do anything useful if you do put in the www.

 

SuperBlackHat

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• Aug 20, 2010

• #10

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mydomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]


This is the one i found to finally work.