Redirect to www - htaccess

Question

I would like redirect site on start if address is without www. For example if:

http://page.com - should redirect to http://www.page.com
http://page.com/news/first - should redirect http://www.page.com/news/first

i have:

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
  RewriteRule . http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

why this not working? How can i make it?

Answer 1

Try this code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]

Answer 2

Give this a try. Place these as the first lines in your .htaccess . If you already have the RewriteEngine on statement just ignore it and use the last two lines.

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