Rewriting URLs to use www with permanent redirect.

[shakir]

The following rewrite rule enables all requests to a site to go through via its www URL, theoretically improving search engine 'optimization' (if there is such a thing).

The important thing here is that any file or directory request following the url is kept during the redirect (I've seen poor rewrites on sites that just redirect from http://whatever.com to the front page and the user loses their path to the link they clicked on once already).


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


regards

shakir hussain