Thread: How to make a redirect using apache

What is the best way, or how have you done it, to make a redirect and make all traffic to my site use www.mysite.com instead of mysite.com

My server uses apache and I want it to be permenate. I have already set my preference in google webmasters.

Thanks!

Use .htaccess.

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

So, just to clarify, just paste the above code into the .htaccess file.

Yeah, that should work fine. I think I still have WTF's .htaccess redirect around (we use NGINX now). Let me check.

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Here we go, a little different from the above example.

Code:

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

Lol. So, which one to use?

That worked! Thank you very much Jordan.