My url contains a broken link due to the http:// prefix not being added in places. How would I replace this using mod_rewrite:
http://website.com/www.websitelink.com should go here:
http://www.websitelink.com 
- search for htaccess on stackoverflow. Someone will have already answered this.Alex Brown– Alex Brown2010-11-26 11:38:27 +00:00Commented Nov 26, 2010 at 11:38
- Wouldn't it be better to fix the offending links? Or are they beyond your control?Piskvor left the building– Piskvor left the building2010-11-26 11:59:46 +00:00Commented Nov 26, 2010 at 11:59
- the links are beyond my control unfortunately...InnateDev– InnateDev2010-11-26 12:01:51 +00:00Commented Nov 26, 2010 at 12:01
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RewriteRule ^www\.websitelink\.com$ http://www.websitelink.com/ [R=301,NC,L] In other words, if your path is /www.websitelink.com (^ is start of string,$ is end of string; in regular expressions, dots are one-character wildcards and have to be escaped)
(and [NC] matching is not case sensitive - /WwW.webSiteLink.COM would match, too),
[R=301] redirect with status "301 (Moved Permanently)"
to http://www.websitelink.com/
and [L] leave processing (no more rewrite rules are processed).
Note that this will work regardless of the site's domain (would work e.g. for http://website.com/www.websitelink.com and http://www.website.com/www.websitelink.com )
If you want to match all the paths that end with your domain, drop the starting ^:
RewriteRule www\.websitelink\.com$ http://www.websitelink.com/ [R=301,NC,L] and if you want to match even paths without www., make it optional:
RewriteRule (www\.)?websitelink\.com$ http://www.websitelink.com/ [R=301,NC,L] As @Litso noted, this won't match the path after the "domain-in-path"; this should match the trailing path:
RewriteRule (www\.)?websitelink\.com/(.*)$ http://www.websitelink.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L] To match any subdomain:
RewriteRule ([a-z0-9.-]+\.)?websitelink\.com/(.*)$ http://www.websitelink.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L] And to match any domain:
RewriteRule ([a-z0-9.-]+\.)?([a-z0-9.-]+)\.com/(.*)$ http://www.$1.com/$2 [R=301,NC,L] 
answered Nov 26, 2010 at 11:38
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Stephan Muller
If you want to replace all traffic that includes the domain name as a folder and not just the main page, use:
RewriteRule ^www\.websitelink\.com/(.*)$ http://www.websitelink.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L] The (.*) catches evertything behind the domainname.com and $1 inserts that back into the right url
InnateDev
this doesnt seem to be working for me: some of the URLS dont have the www. prefix i.e.: mywebsite.com/myfolder/websitelink.co.uk
Piskvor left the building
@Litso: Quite correct. Do you want to post that as your own answer, or shall I edit it into mine?
Piskvor left the building
@InnateDev: If they don't have the prefix, of course they won't match the pattern which contains the prefix. That's a little bit different from your question; edited my answer.
Stephan Muller
@piskvor just add it to yours ;)
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