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I am redirecting 301 in cpanel www to non-www (naked domain) and the code Cpanel redirect generates doesn't do anything when www to non-www is set.

Server Type: (Litespeed Server, domain has "Let's encrypt" certificate.)

  • DNS config is (not pointing www to non-www as CNAME)
  • both point to same IP
  • mydomain.dev - A Record - 127.0.0.1
  • www.mydomain.dev - A Record - 127.0.0.1

Non-www to www - works

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.dev$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.dev\/$1" [R=301,L]

Www to non-www - doesn't work

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-SSL} !on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.dev$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/mydomain\.dev\/$1" [R=301,L]

Any ideas?

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  • What do you mean by "doesn't work" exactly? Are you getting an error? A redirect loop? Nothing at all? "mydomain.dev - A Record - 127.0.0.1" - Is this really pointing to 127.0.0.1? Is your domain really a .dev TLD? – MrWhite Sep 2 '19 at 14:13
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-SSL} !on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.dev$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/mydomain\.dev\/$1" [R=301,L]

This isn't a plain "www to non-www" redirect, it looks like you are also attempting to redirect HTTP to HTTPS (which you make no mention of in your question).

For an ordinary www to non-www redirect, you need to remove the first two conditions (like your earlier redirect that "works"). For example:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.dev$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/mydomain\.dev\/$1" [R=301,L]

However, you can tidy this up by removing the plethora of unnecessary backslash escapes in the RewriteRule substitution (typical cPanel). For example:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.dev
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https://mydomain.dev/$1" [R=301,L]

I also removed the $ on the end of the preceding CondPattern - in order to catch a potentially FQDN.

You will need to clear your browser cache before testing. (Preferably test with 302 - temporary - redirects to avoid caching issues.)

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  • Yes, I forgot to explicitly mention that I was redirecting to https as well in all cases with or without https and www I wanted it to land on naked https domain. What I mean by doesn't work is it simply doesn't redirect but stays to url you manually enter, except it did redirect http to https but www remained. – Manfred von Richthofen Sep 2 '19 at 18:27
  • "redirecting to https as well in all cases with or without https" - OK, but the above would be incorrect if that is what you were trying to do as it "attempts" to redirect HTTP only. But where did you get X-Forwarded-SSL from? Were you advised to check this header by your host? Otherwise this looks like an error... you should never need to check both %{HTTPS} and %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-SSL}. (?) – MrWhite Sep 3 '19 at 15:00
  • It was a Cpanel generated code. I'm not sure why it did that way. But looks like it's not reliable in all circumstances. – Manfred von Richthofen Sep 6 '19 at 0:56
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Try as follows. WITHOUT www (all visits go to https://example.com):

#start
RewriteEngine On
# non www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
# https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
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    @dan thank you for clarification – All Day Coding Sep 3 '19 at 13:37
  • I've fixed the original code by adding [OR] RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-SSL} !on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.dev$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/mydomain\.dev\/$1" [R=301,L] Thanks for all the help. – Manfred von Richthofen Sep 3 '19 at 14:39
  • @ManfredvonRichthofen That is not strictly correct. Either HTTPS is always "off", in which case the check is redundant or the check for HTTP:X-Forwarded-SSL is redundant and you are allowing malicious requests to block your HTTP to HTTPS redirect. (?) – MrWhite Sep 4 '19 at 10:56
  • Gabriel thanks. It works well. – Manfred von Richthofen Sep 6 '19 at 1:06
  • Good to hear that! Regards! – All Day Coding Sep 6 '19 at 1:10

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