Question

I need to redirect users accessing mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com in my .htaccess file.

The problem is anything I try won’t work, I think because ^mysite.com doesn’t exclude www.mysite.com so that will create a bad loop, but I usually get error 500.

I also need to exclude another subdomain, the img.mysite.com.

How can I do that?

I used many examples from the net & a few htaccess generators, which gave me this code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywebsite.com[nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Answer 1

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

This is what you need – taken from the default Drupal .htaccess