Redirect Users to www version of forum from non-www version

aery

My forum is located at www.gtricks.com/forum but normally without www version also works fine i.e. http://gtricks.com/forum.

Now, there are two problems. 1) Facebook integration works with only www version for I have specified www version in App settings. 2) There are two canonical URLS for same page.

I want to migrate non-www users to www site. A 301 redirect to be precise. An .htaccess edit has to be written, but unfortunately I font know the rules.

According to my understanding, it should be

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

but vanilla is in subfolder named forum and at root there is blog at www.gtricks.com.

Any advice on someone will be highly helpful.

So what should I write in my htaccess?

Nutt

I think you're backwards. It looks like you're looking for the www version and redirecting them to the non-www version. I actually prefer the non-www version, but that's just me.

Here's mine that redirects anything that doesn't start with www -> the www version.

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

aery

Thanks @Nutt for the quick reply.

I already have the following rewrite code in htaccess.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]

After appending your code, the forum has started to act slow. Firefox keeps on showing connecting...connecting...

And should we need to modify anything coz forum is located in sub-folder. The code is for root level sites. My root has gtricks blog and not forum