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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:08:12+00:00

I’m using the following rule to redirect domain.com to https://mail.google.com/a/domain.com so my clients can

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I’m using the following rule to redirect domain.com to https://mail.google.com/a/domain.com so my clients can check their mail. 

RewriteRule ^mail https://mail.google.com/a/%{HTTP_HOST} [R=301,L,NC]

The problem is www.domain.com ends up at https://mail.google.com/a/www.domain.com which is incorrect. Is there any variable that does not include the www. ? Alternatively, can someone help me stripping it out?

As a tangent issue: Does anyone know of a web tool for testing htaccess files? I encounter a lot of caching problems when testing htaccess and I was thinking a simple simulation environment would be awesome.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use a RewriteCond and match for the the domain name. After that you can backreference it in the RewriteRule, like this:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  ([^.]+(\.|\.co\.|\.com\.)[^.]+)$
RewriteRule ^e?mail       https://mail.google.com/a/%1 [R=301,L,NC]

    ([^.]+\.[^.]+)$ would match the last two sections of your domain, separated by a dot.

    Edit: ([^.]+(\.|\.co\.)[^.]+)$ would match DOMAIN.TLD and DOMAIN.co.TLD too.

    Edit2: ^e?mail means DOMAIN.TLD/mail and DOMAIN.TLD/email would redirect

    Edit3: ([^.]+(\.|\.co\.|\.com\.)[^.]+)$ form DOMAIN.com.TLD, and a bit of correction, was missing a dot.

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