How to remove www from your URL with mod_rewrite

Hi, Joost!

I want to auto add the www not to remove it.

I've added this to htaccess:

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

BUT some images just disappeared.

What should I do?

Thank you in advance

I was wondering how you would delete parts within a url. For example:
http://www.example.com/folder1/folder2/page.html

would be rewritten so the user would see

http://www.example.com/page.html

Any help is much appreciated, considering working with mod_rewrite is a real pain!

I'll throw in another vote for Arjan's fix. I can use the same .htaccess on a bunch of sites that way.

Hey,

I'm trying to remove to redirect all /index.php to just /

Any ideas?

I'm trying to achieve the removal of www from my URL's but the directive above has no effect. This is probably because I dont use .htaccess but enter the directives into the ServerConfig. Any idea if this could be the cause and what needs to be changed to get it working?

Thanx for the quick response. I checked and all my other mod_rewrite rules seem to do their job just fine so I guess it is enabled.

Check this for instance: http://poundingtechno.com/counter/

This rule was created to redirect all hits to the main domain:

# PREVENT HOTLINKING ON COUNTER DOWNLOADS
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/counter
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?poundingtechno.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(php)$ http://poundingtechno.com [R,NC]

Thanks for the great code, however, it doesn't filter down to subdirectories.

As an example, when I place the code in my .htaccess file in my public_html folder, it works great for the domain:

http://www.domain.com --> domain.com

However:

http://www.domain.com/city/ --> http://www.domain.com/city

(It has no effect unless I'm in the root folder.

Any help?

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the answer is

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

hello bro,i have got my website at http://www.soamjena.com and i want to remove the ending SLASH / which automatically comes when someone opens my site in their browser. Kindly help me and get me a good solution.
Im waiting for your kind reply.

How can I resolve my home page URL to always display http://www.example.com/ even when someone clicks on http://www.example.com/index.html or if someone types http://example.com/ also it should resolve to http://www.example.com/

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the code, Joost. Very useful and works like a charm

how can i covert url like this
http://www.site.com/City/Index.php?City=Newyork

to
http://Newyork.site.com/City/Index.php

How i can cange the code for a multistore view (with mutiple domains)?