Apache permanent redirect goes to www automatically - apache

Question

My domain name is example.com without www. So if I put www.example.com then it does not work but example.com works. So I configured apache like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
Redirect permanent / https://example.com/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot path/to/project/public
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/keys/xxx.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/keys/xxx.key
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_log combined
<Directory "path/to/project/public">
Options FollowSymLinks
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now, as you can see, I do a permanent redirection to https like
Redirect permanent / https://example.com/
But this redirection add www with the domain name by default. So the redirected url becomes https://www.example.com/. Obviously my website can not be accessed from with www since it is registered without www. So please tell me how can make the redirect to work and go to https://example.com/ without the https.

Answer 1

Add an Alias
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
</VirtualHost>
This requires that the www.yourdomain.com points to the same place as yourdomain.com. However the www might not work with your SSL certificate, it depends on the certificates specificity.
I generally allow both on my sites as some people insist on including the www whenever they enter an address.
Apache's documentation can help out with more specifics https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
As far as the redirect issue you're having:
Make sure you don't have some RewriteEngine rules that are rewriting your non www requests to www. You might have an .htaccess file in your site directory that is doing the rewrite/redirect.
It might look something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://www.%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
Which would mean you should remove the www in the last Rewrite Rule