[SOLVED] Own example.org and can't get www.example.org to redirect

Own example.org and can't get www.example.org to redirect

I own http://0x3c.org/ and everything is working as it should. I am using Google Domains and have Dynamic DNS set up with them to point to the Apache server inside of my house.

My issue is that http://www.0x3c.org/ does not redirect to http://0x3c.org/, instead it says that http://www.0x3c.org/ does not exist. Additionally, I do not want http://www.0x3c.org/ to exist.

I would like for it to redirect, and don't know how to go about setting it up. Can anyone guide me as to how to do this?

Thank you.

Solution

www.0x3c.org has to exist, in order to redirect the requests. You have to create a DNS (CNAME) entry for www.0x3c.org, direct it (preferably) to the same server that serves 0x3c.org and then use Apache rewrite rules, as described here:

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