Wordpress Multisite non-www redirection through .htaccess

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I have just set up the domain properly and everything is working well but when I tried to redirect non-www to www by adding the following lines to htaccess, it throws a 404. Not sure if it's a wp multisite or apache config? Using the bitnami wordpress multisite 3.3.2 aws ami stack.

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

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I think you should remove the last '/' in the RewriteRule. Can you try with the following?

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

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answered 04 May '12, 12:34

Carlos Sánchez ♦♦
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Didn't work either, now it's in a redirect loop. I'm wondering if it was the initial setup process that I mess up, as in:

$ mysql -u root -p -e "USE bitnami_wordpress; UPDATE wp_options SET option_value='http://YOUR_DOMAIN/' WHERE option_name='siteurl' OR option_name='home';"

I should have use www.YOUR_DOMAIN instead of just YOUR_DOMAIN?

(04 May '12, 12:40) Laurent Ho

Yes, it may be the reason. You should configure wordpress with 'www' prefix too or it will redirect to the value you entered in the database.

$ mysql -u root -p -e "USE bitnami_wordpress; UPDATE wp_options SET option_value='http://www.example.com/' WHERE option_name='siteurl' OR option_name='home';"

(04 May '12, 13:07) Carlos Sánchez ♦♦

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