i want to put in my htaccess file a redirect from non www inquiries to www. for my website..

for example, redirect all domain.com to https://www.domain.com

i have coding that will do that

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

but there is already existing coding in my htaccess that i don't want to mess up. coding for zen cart?? and for ceon_uri_mapping.. here is the coding already in there:

BEGIN CEON URI MAPPING REWRITE RULE

RewriteEngine On

Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(html)$ [NC]

Don't rewrite any URIs for some, popular specific file format extensions,

which are not covered by main file extension condition above

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(mp3|mp4|h264)$ [NC]

Don't rewrite any URIs for some specific file format extensions,

which are not covered by main file extension condition above

Uncomment the following line to apply this condition! (Remove the # at the start of the next line)

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(3gp|3g2|h261|h263|mj2|mjp2|mp4v|mpg4|m1v|m2v|m4u|f4v|m4v|3dml)$ [NC]

Don't rewrite admin directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/adminhiddenxxxxxx [NC]

Don't rewrite editors directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors/ [NC]

Don't rewrite logs directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/logs/ [NC]

Don't rewrite catalog directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/catalog/ [NC]

Don't rewrite tempEP directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tempEP/ [NC]

Don't rewrite mobile

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/m/ [NC]

Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (its index.php)

RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]

END CEON URI MAPPING REWRITE RULE

since i know VERY LITTLE about htaccess coding, can someone please help me here.. btw, the admin directory is of course not real..

This should be handled by adding the www to your configure.php files

Store side file

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');

Admin side file

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');

lidlchris:

i want to put in my htaccess file a redirect from non www inquiries to www. for my website..

No need to do this. ZC handles canonical issues already with

<?php if (isset($canonicalLink) && $canonicalLink != '') { ?>
<link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo $canonicalLink; ?>" />
<?php } ?>

in the html_header.php files

And there's also no need to (or advantage in) re-writing URL's. If you think this may assist "SEO" then you are mis-informed. It has zero influence on "SEO".

kobra:

This should be handled by adding the www to your configure.php files

Store side file

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');

> Admin side file
> ```
  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');

Yes... you decide whether to use www by configuring your URL as Kobra describes. As I said above, the canonical issue is largely solved by the php code in the header.

kobra:

This should be handled by adding the www to your configure.php files

Store side file

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');

> Admin side file
> ```
  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.xxxxxxxx.com');
  define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://www.xxxxxxxx.com');

ok, this didn't work BUT maybe it's because i'm using 'multi sites' mod.. but even then i went into the _config.php file for this site and set it to go to https://www.xxxxxx.com and yet when you type in xxxxx.com it does NOT redirect..

are you familiar with 'multi sites'??

schoolboy:

No need to do this. ZC handles canonical issues already with

no, not doing it for SEO.. doing it for SSL so that i only need to use one version for my multi domain SSL.. don't want to use up 2 on a https://www.xxxxxx.com AND xxxxxx.com..

set it to go to https://www.xxxxxx.com and yet when you type in xxxxx.com it does NOT redirect.
Click on anything - does it redirect??

kobra:

Click on anything - does it redirect??

yes it does.. :) thanks...