Redirect all users to access the site with 'www' prefix using htaccess file

We can redirect the site url to "www" prefix, whether the user is accessing the site without "www" prefix by adding rewrite url in .htaccess file in root folder.

add following lines in .htaccess file to add www prefix.

 RewriteEngine on

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

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

Similarly we can remove "www" prefix from the url and redirect to without "www" by adding following lines in .htaccess file

 RewriteEngine on

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

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