Question

I’m trying to force www on my website using a RewriteRule in the htaccess file.

I’m using FuelPHP and I have to have the following rewrite rule in the htaccess file but the methods I found to force www didn’t play nice with my current setup.

Current htaccess code

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

Code that I found here to force www

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

How can I combine these to enable forcing www and still have the other rule in the htacess file?

Answer 1

Try using this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Redirect to wwww
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]