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Asked: 2026-05-25T16:22:42+00:00

I’m trying to force www for my site address with .htaccess : RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}

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I’m trying to force www for my site address with .htaccess:

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

If I open mysite.com this working ok – it adds www. It becomes http://www.mysite.com/index.php.

But if I open mysite.com/subpage I redirected to http://www.mysite.com/index.php again, instead of http://www.mysite.com/subpage.

But if I open http://www.mysite.com/subpage I don’t get redirect (which is the expected behaviour).

How can I fix this? I would like the redirect all requests to my site to the www subdomain.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is right here:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$ [NC]

    ^ specifies the beginning of the string while $ specifies the end.

    In order to make it work you need to have a wildcard select after the .com or .+.

    to reiterate what Alex said:

     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
   RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
 </IfModule>
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