4.2 Apache Force Common URL

For this website both the urls,

http://bonsaiframework.com and http://www.bonsaiframework will work.

However, in some cases you want to force what a consistent url for a variety of reasons,

• Vendor or product code that works with only a specific url.
• Improve index results from search engines

This can be accomplished using Apache's Rewrite.

Enable Rewrite Module

Verify Rewrite Module

Apply Directives

# Enforce www in front of url.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %

!^www\.bonsaiframework\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bonsaiframework.com$1 [R,L]

I usually place these rules right after my ServerAlias lines in my virtual host.

Test

Debugging