As I understand it, it is generally good practice to make it so that a visitor who comes to domain.com/some/page.html is automatically redirected to www.domain.com/some/page.html. In addition to the general reasons, I have the additional reason that the drupal part of my site has a number of issues when switiching between www and no-www.

I contacted my hosting company (after having little success finding a good tutorial) and, after trying a number of modifications to the .htaccess file that just messed things up, one the most recent responce has suggested that I might want to see if this is a Drupal problem.

Does anyone know how I can make the redirection work or know of a good guide?

Thanks!

Drupal does its own URL rewriting, because all of its URLs are dynamic, and don't look very good in the browser. Drupal's rewriting makes the page-names more friendly to users and search engines both.

What you are referring to is domain name canonicalization, which is also a form of URL rewriting, and normally (as you have figured out) is done via the .htaccess file.

This is how I do it in .htaccess:

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

If that causes a conflict with Drupal's rewriting, I'm not sure what to do.

Thanks! I don't dare try it right now, since my website is getting a bunch (relatively) of traffic :-), but I will try it later. Thanks!

Thanks! That worked perfectly.

You're welcome

Oops... I guess I was wrong...

I got it working for everything except the Drupal part. It might help if I was very specific. Here is exactly what I am hoping for:

When every anyone goes to any of the following:
http://linuxloop.com/lldrupal2
linuxloop.com/lldrupal2
http://www.linuxloop.com/lldrupal2
http://linuxloop.com/lldrupal2/
linuxloop.com/lldrupal2/
http://www.linuxloop.com/lldrupal2/
(Basically, anything with linuxloop.com/lldrupal2 as part of it, including sub-directories.)

It should redirect them to:
http://www.linuxloop.com/lldrupal2/ (followed by whatever sub-directory they are in)

Thanks!

Sorry for the double post. I got a bit closer.

I found some stuff commented out in Drupal's .htaccess file that helps. The lines I have modified and uncommented are here:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^linuxloop\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.linuxloop.com/lldrupal2/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteBase /lldrupal2

Everything works now except http://linuxloop.com/lldrupal2 (without a trailing slash). That redirects to http://www.linuxloop.com/lldrupal2//...loop/lldrupal2 . Any ideas?

Thanks!