.htaccess Rewrite to WWW Causing Timeout in Wordpress Installation

[bouncybunny]

For years I've been using the following to successfully redirect non WWW urls.

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

However, having just installed Wordpress in a subdirectory, I find that it continually redirects from WWW, to non WWW, and eventually times out. No other script does this and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience of this issue with WordPress and if there is an alternate way to deal with this?

I've also tried

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

[g1smd]

Wordpress has it's own redirection built in, so amend the settings within Wordpress to confirm www as the one to use.

[bouncybunny]

Thanks.

I'll see if I can get this to work.

[g1smd]

The code you supplied also works better if you add

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .

to check for non-blank host name requests (like when the request is HTTP 1.0 not 1.1).

[jdMorgan]

Also remove the end-anchor and escape the period in the existing RewriteCond pattern.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com

Jim