Redirecting from www.site.com to site.com

Getting rid of the 'www'

[Scooter24]

I'd like to redirect all requests to [site.com...] to [site.com...] (and not do any redirects for direct requests to [site.com...] ).

How can this be achieved, i.e. what is the correct syntax of the .htaccess Apache directives?

[bill]

Here's one way:

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

[jdMorgan]

Some previous discussion [webmasterworld.com].

Jim

[Scooter24]

I tried what was suggested:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^example\.com
RewriteRule ^.*$ [example.com%{REQUEST_URI}...] [R=301,L]

replacing example and com with my domain and got 500 Internal Server Error. Perhaps something is wrong with the syntax?

[Scooter24]

Could it be that the forum software is removing some spaces?

[Scooter24]

Never mind - problem solved. There has to be a space between {HTTP_HOST} and!^example\.com

Why does the forum software remove spaces?

BTW, while I write this, the forum software just removed the space between the "and" and the exclamation sign... Even if I insert it again the software keeps taking it out. Perhaps you should fix this bug.

[jdMorgan]

It just does that. Use two spaces to override it !

Jim

[Scooter24]

It's a bug, Jim. Not everybody might be aware of this two spaces rule, but people sometimes post Apache directives and the automatic space removal makes them invalid. It is something that should be fixed.