How to remove www from your URL with mod_rewrite
source link: http://yoast.com/how-to-remove-www-from-your-url-with-mod\_rewrite/ I got a hit today for the following search query: how do you get rid of the www in url .
Here's the code to 301 redirect the www version of your site to the non-www version using Apache's mod\_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Adding the www instead of removing it
And, as requested in the comments, the code to add www to your domain name:
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com$1 [R=301]