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Olivier
Asked: 2012-07-27 07:59:55 +0800 CST

Remove "www" from domain with Apache2 for HTTPS?

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Just installed a new fresh 12.04 ubuntu server.

Always used the boilerplate redirection to remove www but it looked like it did not support https so I started looking around. Tried everything I found & somehow http "www" removal works well but https won't redirect.

Here is what I use (in a bp_rewrite.conf file in /etc/apache2/conf.d) :

# Rewrite "www.example.com -> example.com"

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)
  RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s/%1 ^(on(s)|offs)/(.+)
  RewriteRule ^ http%2://%3%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Has anyone experienced this?

apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. In order for the RewriteRule to trigger, both RewriteCond directives has to be true.

    How about this:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

    Now, if just one of the conditions remain true (as for https://www.example.com/, where only the first condition is true), the RewriteRule is applied

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  2. Best Answer

    Your example code looks slightly overly complicated, but very close to what I use:

        RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s%{HTTP_HOST} ^(on(s)|offs).+\.(.+\..+)$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http%2://%3$1 [R=301]

    Note: This simply rips anything off the front of the domain name's last two parts. So your user could enter what.the.example.com and it would reduce it to example.com. If your domain name is example.co.uk or something with three parts the end of the first line would have to be modified to fit.

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