301 Redirect Issues (non www to www)

[tajhay]

Hi guys,
I am trying to do a 301 redirect so that the non www url is pointed to the one with www, but having issues. When i do add it, i get errors stating too many redirects.

Just to be clear i only have to update the htaccess file in the root folder that xenforo resides in correct?

 

[Mike Edge]

Correct

It is..

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

 

[Dodgeboard]

Hi guys,
I am trying to do a 301 redirect so that the non www url is pointed to the one with www, but having issues. When i do add it, i get errors stating too many redirects.

Just to be clear i only have to update the htaccess file in the root folder that xenforo resides in correct?

Yes.

Are you using Cpanel?

EDIT: Ninja'd by Mike Edge.

 

[tajhay]

Correct

It is..

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

yes that is what i am using.

Yes.

Are you using Cpanel?

yes i tried to do it in cpanel too. no luck either way

 

[Mike Edge]

Your host might not have re-writes correctly configured then.

 

[Jake Bunce]

For more complete instructions and exact placement, see this post:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/www-vs-non-www-domain-logging-isssues.33074/page-2#post-377821