Non-www doesn't work right away

[StoutFiles]

Here's my rewrite code:

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

example.com rewrites to http://www.example.com once I've already connected to the server...but if I type in example.com the first time I try to access the site it won't find the website. Any possible reasons?

[g1smd]

Flush the browser cache first and try again.

There's no rewrite here. What you have is a redirect.

[jdMorgan]

"Won't find the web site" sound like a DNS problem, depending on the exact message you're seeing (you didn't quote it).

If this is a newly-registered domain or if you have changed server IP addresses recently, it is quite possible that the updated DNS information has not yet propagated.

If no such changes have been made, then there may be a DNS conflict caused by someone somewhere in world typing something wrong into a DNS record, and declaring it authoritative -- Either accidentally or maliciously.

Jim