Jamie Nay » Server http://jamienay.com A PHP web developer writing about the web. Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:09:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 htaccess trick – redirect to WWW domain without hardcoding the domain name http://jamienay.com/2010/01/htaccess-trick-redirect-to-www-domain-without-hardcoding-the-domain-name/ http://jamienay.com/2010/01/htaccess-trick-redirect-to-www-domain-without-hardcoding-the-domain-name/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:31:50 +0000 Jamie http://jamienay.com/?p=531 I’m notoriously bad at writing good htaccess redirection rules, so when it came time to write a rule that would redirect any non-www URL to its www equivalent, I was a bit lost. I wanted a rule that I could apply to any website without needing to hard-code the domain. I found a few examples after some Google searching, but nothing worked for me. So, a colleague and I came up with this rule, which does the job:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z-]+)\.([a-z]{2,6})$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1\.%2/$1 [R=301,L]

Can it be improved? You tell me!

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