redirect www to non www

[jackstonehouse]

Hi everyone.

Am have trouble sorting out a redirect.

Basically I have added:

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

to my .htaccess but the redirect isnt working properly.

It redirects www.example.com/pagename back to example.com when it should be example.com.pagename.

Thanks in advance

Jack

[lucy24]

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

RewriteCond as written: If the requested domain is anything other than exactly "example.co.uk" (whoops! forgot to escape a \.there) ... then

RewriteRule as written: Redirect to http://example.co.uk keeping the rest of the URL unchanged.

It redirects www.example.com/pagename back to example.com when it should be example.com.pagename

Do you mean that no matter what file you request, you end up on the front page instead of on the page you asked for? There's got to be another rule making this happen. Your rule has the capture () and reuse $1 in the right places, so you have to look elsewhere.

Please say that ".pagename" is a typo for "/pagename" and ".com" is a typo for ".co.uk". Otherwise none of it makes sense.

The rule you quoted should come at the very end of all your redirects, after the more specific redirects. (Does not apply if, ahem, you don't have any other redirects.) Putting it earlier probably won't cause errors, but it may lead to a single request being redirected twice. And one of those later redirects is the one causing the problem.

[lappert2001]

If it's just www to non-www (without the complexities of pagename), most domain registrars allow you to set up A records for example.com, www.example.com and *.example.com. Or you can do a URL redirect at the registrar level as well.

You can also use ServerAlias to do that:
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com

[g1smd]

An alias doesn't cut it. Requesting one should 301 redirect to the other. This is to avoid both versions returning "200 OK" status as that's a Duplicate Content scenario.

Use the Live HTTP Headers extension for Firefox to investigate the server responses. You're perhaps looking for a double redirect.