force www on forum

[shovenose]

I want the forum to go to www.example.com if they go to example.com. This will make for a more consistent user experience and for better SEO.

Yet, I put this into my htaccess it didn't help.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

How do I make it work?

 

[AndyB]

Try this:

order deny,allow

RewriteCond %{http_host} ^example.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,nc]