There are a couple things that need to be considered when creating an htaccess file to redirect all traffic from a domain to www.domain. Follow the instructions below to make sure you have your bases covered and traffic is redirected properly.

1. mod rewrite:Make sure the rewrite_module is being loaded. You should see a line like the following in your apache configuration file (typically /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf).

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

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Tags: .htaccess, apache, DocumentRoot, httpd.conf, mod_rewrite, rewrite, ReWriteCond, RewriteEngine