Non-www to www code not working in htaccess

[Caleone]

I use the same rewrite code on every site to consolidate the non-www and www versions.

All sites in Joomla, linux hosting. Code is as follows:

RewriteEngine On

rewritecond %{http_host} ^site.com/

rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Immediately following this code, I also rewrite /index.php to /.

Thing is, I can get index.php to rewrite correctly but the non-www won't rewrite to www.

I use the same code on every site but for some reason it's not working here.

Are there common issues that interfere with rewriting a non-www to www in htaccess that could be interfering with the code I'm using above?

[JaspalX]

An alternative that I've had working on Joomla sites is:

#add www

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com$ [NC]

_ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [L,R=301]_

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST

#remove /index.php and ensure admin works okay

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/administrator

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php\ HTTP/

RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

One final thing, have you tried using

Options +FollowSymLinks

[Caleone]

Hi Jassy,

Thanks for your response. I was already using +followsymlinks.

Just tried your code and it did the trick!

Thanks a bunch

[JaspalX]

You're very welcome

BTW, I use SH404SEF with Joomla too, which is pretty good, but is a paid-for product.