Redirecting www to non-www

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I had several examples of 301 redirecting the other way around, from non-www to www, but hadn’t ever had to redirect from www to non-www for anything.

In case your wondering, and don’t ever want the headache I have from my eyes crossing from mod-rewrite, here is how to do it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

If you have more rewrite questions, you can try the mod rewrite cheat sheet, or the URL re-writing tools, or the guide to 301 redirects.

Don’t redirect to example.com, and be sure to check your header responses when you are through.

Thanks to Louis, and a gent who does teak furniture for their assistance in this fiasco.

Todd Malicoat

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http://www.wolf-howl.com graywolf

I do it without the “www” for “branding” or heck just because it sound “nicer”. The REQUEST URI is a new one for me, going to have to try that out.
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/catindex.htm?node=2 Sebastian

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

should do the trick too, and it covers case issues in the server name.
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