How to remove www from address by htaccess?

Question

I have a domain which is accessible on http://www.example.com.

I want to remove the www. part. I am using a .htaccess file, but it isn't working.

 RewriteEngine On

 RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
 RewriteRule ^ https://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]

possible duplicate of [.htaccess Remove WWW from URL + Directories](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6515081/htaccess-remove-www-from-url-directories) (the **first** result on Google for "*htaccess remove www*") — h2ooooooo, Oct 02 '14 at 11:16
This question appears to be off-topic because it is aimed at [webmasters](http://webmasters.stackexchange.com) — Rowland Shaw, Oct 02 '14 at 11:17

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 19 '21 at 15:59

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Place this rule in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www\.
RewriteRule ^ https://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]

edited Jul 19 '21 at 15:59

TRiG

answered Oct 02 '14 at 11:15

Karolis Toleikis

1

This would also match `http://foo.com/request=wwweeeeeeee` because you didn't use `^`. – h2ooooooo Oct 02 '14 at 11:18

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