Question

i have a website and it was working fine if i use example.com or example.com/wp-admin

but was not working if i use www.example.com or www.example.com/wp-admin

i redirected example.com to www.example.com and now neither www.example.com/wp-admin or example.com/wp-admin dont work. i get a blank page

here is what i got so far:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

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

any ideas on how to redirect everything but www.example.com/wp-admin
??

thanks

Answer 1

Are you sure the problem is the re-write rules? It sounds like http://www.example.com never worked…. and now you are redirecting everything to http://www.example.com, so nothing works. You might want to make sure your DNS / virtual host is set up properly… www can be set up to be different than non-www.

However, to answer yoru question, just add an additional condition.

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