This page is not redirecting properly (htaccess)

Yep, another htaccess question

[rubenski]

Hi,

My site uses htaccess to rewrite all incoming requests to /index.php. I am now trying to add new lines to rewrite all example.com/... URLs to www.example.com/... The solution below isn't working, because it causes the site to "not redirect properly". I think it ends in a redirection loop. Could you help out?

#this is new and should rewrite example.com to www.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*).(net|net/)
RewriteRule ^.*$ www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

#this is what I already had and works.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php

[lucy24]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*).(net|net/)
RewriteRule ^.*$ www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

What is this pair of lines intended to do? Trying to sort it out has given me a headache so let's just stipulate that, whatever it is, it isn't doing it.

Or you can search for "www redirect" in this Forum. There should be several hundred threads within the past year.

[g1smd]

!^www..*

-- the trailing unactioned .* just wastes processor cycles, literal periods should be escaped, use

!^www\.

only.

^([^.]*).(net|net/)

-- code has multiple issues: escape the literal period, hostname never ends in / here, you need $ end anchor, and [^.]* matches a blank, as in

http: // .net

-- use

^([^.]+)\.net(:[0-9]+)?$

to also ensure you redirect requests with an appended port number.

#this is new and should rewrite example.com to www.example.com

-- no it does not. It is a redirect not a rewrite.

#this is what I already had and works.

-- the first rule should include the protocol and domain name in the rule target,
-- the second rule needs the [L] flag.