Redirect domain.com/shop to www.domain.com/shop

Question

Note: Before you mark it duplicate, please read the complete question. I already applied bellow suggestion which didn't work for me.

1 - mod rewrite from .domain to www.domain htaccess

2 - .htaccess redirect from http://www.domain/ to https://domain.com

3 - .htaccess redirect any domain/directory to www.domain/directory

We've got a shopping site which we're hosting on a host (CloudLogin). The main site is built on Joomla CMS and Magento as shopping cart.

The main site URL is www.domain.com and shopping cart URL is domain.com/shop (Without www).

What we need is to show both URLs with (www).

So we need the Magento folder ie domain.com/shop also to be on www URL.

I found some solutions on stack overflow but they didn't work for me as it always show a message browser (Too many redirection or /page isn't redirecting properly)

Note: The .htaccess file is located in (shop) folder.

Bellow is what I tried so far:

1 -

# anything.com to www.anything.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^.]+(\.[^.]+)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301,NE] 

The above code removes the (shop) directory from URL which turns into error.

ex: domain.com/ shop /cat1/prod1 turns into www.domain.com/cat1/prod1

2 -

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shop/?.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Above code not even apply www on it.

3 -

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^.]+\.[^.]+$
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Above code redirects from domain.com/shop/ cat1 / prod1 to www.domain.com/shop with error message (redirected you too many times.) Which seems infinite loop on page.

4 -

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

This does the same thing as 3.

5 -

#RewriteCond ${HTTP_HOST} doamin.com [OR]
#RewriteCond ${HTTP_HOST} www.doamin.com
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.doamin.com/shop/$1 [QSA,R=301,L]

Does anyone know how I can always force the correct use of .htaccess for particular URLs?

I've had a look around SO but couldn't find a suitable answer to this.

Answer 1

Try :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shop
RewriteCond www.%{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(www\..+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1/shop%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,L,R]

Answer 2

Did you try the following?

# anything.com to www.anything.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^.]+(\.[^.]+)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/shop/$1 [L,R=301,NE]

Since requests originate from the /shop directory they will not contain that directory in the URL requested.