Question

I’m working on a site, colorurl.com, and I need users to be able to type in colorurl.com/00ff00 (or some variation of that), and see the correct page. However, with the naked domain issue, users who type in colorurl.com/somepath will instead be redirected to http://www.colorurl.com/.

Is there a way to detect this in python, and then redirect the user to where they meant to go (With the www. added?)

EDIT:

Clarification: In my webhost’s configuration I have colorurl.com forward to http://www.colorurl.com. They do not support keeping the path (1and1). I have to detect the previous path and redirect users to it.

1. User goes to colorurl.com/path
2. User is redirected to http://www.colorurl.com
3. App needs to detect what the path was.
4. App sends user to http://www.colorurl.com/path

Answer 1

What I’d do in this scenario is set up a small site at your naked domain which consists of just a .htaccess file which redirects path and all to www.*:

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