Question

My website is hosted on a VPS powered by Ubuntu with LAMP.

I can’t use direct links to any page without www.

that is typing url http://example.com/secondpage will redirect to http://www.example.com/.
the second page had lost. But http://www.example.com/secondpage works perfectly.
I tried changing .htaccess, but no effect.

Can you help me?

Answer 1

You need to use this inside your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If this doesn’t work, you can use this:

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