Adding www to URL : not working

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This is further to the redirect query which I posted earlier in this group .

Redirect rule for Apache : Adding www to URL

It is still not working for me , so re-posting the same query . The query was to add www to a URL www.example.com.au

I tried adding both the rewrite rules one by one as shown below,but still no luck. www is getting removed from URL.

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


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

Please suggest further .

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '15 at 23:23

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# Replace 'example.com' with your domain name
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z.]+)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.%1example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

answered Aug 17 '15 at 23:23

VaTo

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the domain actually ends with .com.au . Do I need to add .au in the above rules. – Zama Ques Aug 17 '15 at 23:52
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Please, adjust it to your needs. – VaTo Aug 17 '15 at 23:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '15 at 14:27

Our webmaster appears to have solved this by having different VirtualHost for the example.com and www.example.com hostnames; the config at least has much less mod_rewrite to deal with...

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName actual.example.com
    ServerAlias ...  # any other names for the host here
    DocumentRoot "/some/dir" # required by Apache?
    RedirectMatch (.*) http://www.example.com$1
</VirtualHost>

# main host (actually a CNAME for actual.example.com in DNS,
# but whatever)
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    ...

Adding www to URL : not working

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