Forcing WWW with httpd.conf rather than .htaccess - apache

I've read up on many Force WWW. tricks using htaccess. (As Below)
Rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domina.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I'm wondering if there is a method to force WWW using httpd.config across the entire site.
The htaccess works a treat, but I have many subdirectories, most of them include there own .htacess files, which breaks the force www in that particular subdirectory.
So I was thinking, is there a way to force this "www." into httpd.config, across the entire site without editing .htaccess?
Thanks.

This should do it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
And to maintain HTTPS too:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

This works for me
# direct all variation of FQDN to www.epoch.co.il
RewriteEngine on
#RewriteLogLevel 3
#RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/epoch/www/epoch-rewrite_log"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.epoch\.co\.il [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.epoch.co.il/$1 [L,R]

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Force www and redirect root directory

I couldn't find a question that answered mine, or maybe I couldn't search using the right terms, but come on. I have the following rule in my htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com\.br$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com\.br$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\.br\/site" [R=301,L]
This works when the user enters only the URL (domain.com.br or www.domain.com.br), but I need it to redirect when the user accesses this way:
domain.com.br or www.domain.com.br --> https://www.domain.com.br/site
domain.com.br/XXX --> https://www.domain.com.br/XXX
What rule should I use for this?
Update: the server already has a default rule to force SSL, in which case it is unnecessary to put it in htaccess
Rule update:
**On virtual host:**
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
**On htaccess file:**
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com\.br$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com\.br$
RewriteRule ^/?$ https://www.domain.com.br/site/ [R=301,L]
Your code generates a redirect loop. Also, you don't need to escape slashes on targets.
You could merge everything inside your virtual host block (faster than using a htaccess):
RewriteEngine On
# force https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# force www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# redirect root directory to /site/
RewriteRule ^/?$ /site/ [R=301,L]
Of course, you will see a redirect chain for e.g. http://domain.tld/ as it will first redirect to https://domain.tld/ then to https://www.domain.tld/ and finally to https://www.domain/tld/site/. This is fine. However, if you really want to handle everything with only one redirect, you could. But, it will be less generic.
For instance, you would end up with those rules:
RewriteEngine On
# force root directory to /site/ (https+www)
RewriteRule ^/?$ https://www.domain.com.br/site/ [R=301,L]
# force any other pages to https+www if not the case already
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.domain.com.br%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

rewrite www. to without www. in .htaccess for hostname instead of writing in the website name?

I currently use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.e-innovate.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://e-innovate.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
But what i am trying to do is create a general rewrite code which i can drop into .htaccess files without having to change the domain name such as below, i dont seem to be able to get this to work, am i on the right track ?
Thanks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
note that this will also get applied to subdomains.

.htaccess redirect on Apache from non-www to www version

I'm trying to redirect my website about dentists in London from the non-www to the www version and I'm using the following code on the .htaccess of my server, but it doesn't work. What do I miss?
Thank you
RewriteEngine On
### re-direct to www
RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.topdentists.co.uk [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.topdentists.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]
Try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
This is more general and will work for any site, not just the one you are currently working on. Taken from: Dense13.com (explanation of the code is in the second comment, underneath the article)
The reason why I think your code didn't work is because the RewriteCond uses a regular expression, but you didn't escape the dot (which is a regex-character).
To properly handle any potential https requests, as well as any strange characters, something like this is usually recommended:
# From http://stackoverflow.com/a/4958847/1078583
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Properly redirecting a subdomain to subdirectory invisibly

I know similar things have been asked before, but none of the solutions I've found have seemed to work out. I'm by far an expert when it comes to mod_rewrite and it's ilk, so apologies if I'm missing something obvious.
I am trying to invisibly redirect subdomains to an index.php file in a subdirectory; this file takes the value of the subdomain as part of the query string, which is working fine.
The problem I'm having is that now everything in this subdirectory is being redirected to the index.php file, which I don't want to happen.
This is what I have thus far:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# User dashboards
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ app/index.php?user=%1 [L,NC,QSA]
What I'm looking for is a situation where http://subdomain.example.com/ will lead to /app/index.php?user=subdomain, but http://subdomain.example.com/assets/stylesheet.css will go to /app/assets/stylesheet.css.
Thanks in advance!
If i understood well your example, you can do it this way:
redirects example.com to www.example.com to avoid having "empty" subdomain
internally rewrites every root subdomains (except www) to /app/index.php?user=subdomain
internally rewrites other things with "app" prefix
Which is represented by this code
RewriteEngine on
# redirects example.com to www.example.com to avoid having "empty" subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# internally rewrites every root subdomains (except www) to /app/index.php?user=subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /app/index.php?user=%1 [L,NC,QSA]
# internally rewrites other things with "app" prefix
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !app/
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)$ /app/$1 [L,NC,QSA]
EDIT: as you asked in below comments, here is how to manage also www subdomain
RewriteEngine on
# redirects example.com to www.example.com to avoid having "empty" subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# internally redirects www subdomain root to /site/index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /site/index.php [L]
# internally rewrites every other root subdomains to /app/index.php?user=subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /app/index.php?user=%1 [L,NC,QSA]
# internally rewrites other things with "app" prefix
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !app/
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)$ /app/$1 [L,NC,QSA]
Let add second rule to redirect assets to app/assets:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|png|jpg|gif)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ app/index.php?user=%1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^assets/(.*)$ app/assets/$1 [L,QSA]
or load all css/js/images directly from app:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(css|js|png|jpg|gif)$ app/$0 [NC, QSA]
RewriteRule ^.*$ app/index.php?user=%1 [L,QSA]
EDIT: Sorry, I haven't tested it before, so there is working example:
RewriteRule ^assets/(.*)$ app/assets/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule !^app/assets/ app/index.php?user=%1 [L,QSA]

.htaccess redirection - two sharing websites

I have two websites that is actually the same where example.com shares all files from examples.com. So whatever changes made in exampples.com, example.com automatically gets updated. That means they have the same .htaccess file.
The problem is, I want to both sites redirects to non www to a www url. I got this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^\.]+\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
This should do it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^examples\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Basically you're adding an OR condition to say if either example.com or examples.com doesn't begin with www. then add it to the respective domain name.
replace example.com with %{HTTP_HOST} to make your rules host independent