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Asked: 2026-06-13T06:21:05+00:00

First time here, and I’m a bit of a mod_rewrite and regex noob, so

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First time here, and I’m a bit of a mod_rewrite and regex noob, so please let me know if I’ve missed anything. I’ve searched here and elsewhere all day but not found exactly what I need.

I’m looking for a set of RewriteConds and RewriteRules that will accomplish the following:

  • remove the www, if present in URL
  • redirect into a folder, if not already present in URL
  • preserve the rest of the URL

I have a web app installed in a specific subfolder (we’ll call it /webapp) which is configured to require no www on the url. It presents a stupid annoying message to the user if they include the www. I can dig into the app and reprogram that, but I’d like to handle that for the users through .htaccess and mod_rewrite, and simultaneously dump them into the folder, if they forget to type it, doing all of this with a 301 redirect.

For example, I’d like any of the following requests

http://www.mydomain.org/webapp/anything
http://www.mydomain.org/anything
http://mydomain.org/anything

To be redirected to

http://mydomain.org/webapp/anything

And obviously if a “correct” URL (one starting with http://mydomain.org/webapp/) is requested, it’s not rewritten at all.

My best guess so far is as follows:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.org/$1 [R=302]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/webapp.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.org/webapp/$1 [R=302]

This seemed to work according to http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ but in practice, not so much.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found the answer myself here: BowlerHat

    Looks like this:

    # First just remove the www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.org/$1 [L,R=301]

# Now redirect into the folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !webapp/ [NC]         # if the provided URI does not start with /webapp,
RewriteRule (.*) http://mydomain.org/webapp/ [L,R=301]         # redirect user to /webapp/ root

    I decided that if users try to visit mydomain.org/somethingsomething, just to send them to the root of the webapp, rather than /webapp/somethingsomething.

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