Apache webserver: redirect requests for domain.com to www.domain.com
Monday, March 22, 2010 posted by Till
Many webmasters want to redirect users that access their websites with “domain.tld” automatically to “www.domain.tld”. If you use the Apache web server, you can do this by using Apache rewrite rules.
Add a .htaccess file with the following content in the root directory of the website:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
If you use ISPConfig as hosting control panel, you can add these rules also in the Apache directives field of the website instead of a .htaccess file
It do not work for me, anyone can confirm if it;s working or not?
did not work for me either… something must be off, looking for another sollution
RaZer0r: i think i find the way it is working.
Try it 
I made 2 sites in ISPConfig: 1 – without www (example.com), and 2 – with www (www.example.com). Then i setup redirection inside ISPConfig (without htaccess file, but it may also work) inside 1st site, and then, it started to work
Should be like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
I’ve updated the rewrite rule.
Hello, this is still not working for me.
May be because I am working with apache AND tomcat. This is how the apache directive looks like in ispconfig2:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/servlet.gupld(.*)$ /tomcat_mydomain/servlet.gupld$1 [PT,QSA,L]
JkMount /tomcat_mydomain/* worker1
Tomcat rewrite rule IS working. Any help would be very apreciated.
Thanks