301 redirect non-www to www in subdirectories

Question

I am in a unique situation where I have multiple instances of Joomla setup under my primary domain in different subdirectories.

For example:

example.com = Joomla instance
example.com/subdirectory1 = Another Joomla instance
example.com/subdirectory2 = Another Joomla instance

On the main Joomla instance I was able to forward my non-www pages to www using the htaccess file and this code:

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

I want to also forward non-www pages to www pages on all of the subdirectories.

What would be the best way to achieve this? Since each subdirectory has it's own Joomla instance, is there something I can just add to each of the htaccess files?

I have tried adding this line the the .htaccess files within the subdirectories:

RewriteOptions inherit

However, it actually forwards the non-www pages to www.example.com and removes the subfolder from the URL.

I have searched this issue for days but have only come up empty. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Move those three lines out of your .htaccess and into the Apache config. That's all you need. — Michael Hampton, Mar 15 '16 at 22:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '16 at 23:28

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The issue is, your Rewrite options are working for only root directory. You can move these options to conf/httpd.conf file. So it will be effect to all pages.

answered Mar 17 '16 at 23:28

Tolqiu

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