How do I redirect all non-www traffic to www in digitalocean

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I'm trying to redirect all https://example.com to https://www.example.com and I can't find anything that works. I want to do this as I think it will look better and it will make logging in easier as you currently have to login at both domains as they're treated as being different. I added this .htaccess file in case this is what I've got wrong?

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

Does this answer your question? [apache redirect from non www to www](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1100343/apache-redirect-from-non-www-to-www) — AD7six, Sep 06 '21 at 10:22

Rateb Habbab · Answer 1 · 2021-09-06T08:46:38.480

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Try this:

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

edited Sep 06 '21 at 08:46

answered Sep 06 '21 at 03:16

Rateb Habbab

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Is there a way to test this withou having to update my production code? – willmahoney Sep 06 '21 at 07:03
I've tried this and it didn't work unfortunately – willmahoney Sep 06 '21 at 08:40
did you replaced the example.com with your domain ? – Rateb Habbab Sep 06 '21 at 08:45
@willmahoney please check the edits, I added a more generic solution. – Rateb Habbab Sep 06 '21 at 08:47
it didn't work, I think I have to update it in the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file, as this seems to be overruling the .htaccess file – willmahoney Sep 06 '21 at 09:13
`I think I have to update it in the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file` - if you aren't using apache, editing `.htaccess` files will have no effect. – AD7six Sep 06 '21 at 10:32
Does this mean I can delete my .htaccess file from my react public folder then? – willmahoney Sep 06 '21 at 18:53

How do I redirect all non-www traffic to www in digitalocean

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