Redirect Issue

[mathceleb]

When we use the following .htaccess the site will redirect properly for a few minutes then it just stops responding. Essentially, we want to redirect non-www requests to the www handle.

BrowserMatchNoCase Apache-HttpClient/4.0.1 bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

[MarkR]

Try the inverse:

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

[handlegeek]

Below code works well for non-www to www redirects.

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

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