Changing www to point to non-www, instead of the opposite, using .htaccess

Question

I'm switching servers and need to change the following RewriteCond and RewriteRule commands in the .htaccess file.

Right now I'm pointing domain.com to www.domain.com using:

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

I need to switch the commands and do the opposite, where I point www.domain.com to domain.com.

dan · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-29 23:19:29Z

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You just need to change the URL structure in the same two lines:

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

answered Jan 29, 2014 at 23:19

dan♦

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you need to escape your www.domain.com to www\.domain\.com and with the one below. Still a simple nice answer
– Liam Sorsby
Jan 30, 2014 at 17:16
Thanks. It's only suggested to escape metacharacters in the regular expressions of a RewriteRule, but not the target. See Regular Expressions here.
– dan ♦
Jan 30, 2014 at 17:41
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I was unaware of that, thank you for the correction
– Liam Sorsby
Jan 30, 2014 at 17:44

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