Forcing www version is adding ghost subdirectory

Asked Oct 24 '14 at 15:55

Active Oct 24 '14 at 16:18

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I've used this bit of code many times for my client's sites, but I'm getting a weird error on one of them. If I use this code, then try to test a non-www page to see if it will redirect, it inserts a subdirectory directly after the .com. For example, example.com/example.html gets redirected to www.example.com/exa/example.html, which is obviously a 404 error. The "exa" subdirectory doesn't even exist.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

# Redirect non-www urls to www
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

edited Oct 24 '14 at 16:18

BiscuitBaker

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asked Oct 24 '14 at 15:55

gandalfstormcrow

Try last line as: `RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]` – anubhava Oct 24 '14 at 16:22
That didn't work. It's still directing to the subdirectory. Any other suggestions? – gandalfstormcrow Oct 28 '14 at 15:14
where is this .htaccess located and what was your original URL in browser? – anubhava Oct 28 '14 at 15:19

Forcing www version is adding ghost subdirectory

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