: Issue with Apache redirection I want to redirect mysite.com or http://mysite.com or www.mysite.com or any other format given my user to http://www.mysite.com, I'm able to achieve this by rewriting

@Nickens628

What you want is this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) www.example.com/ [L,R]


which was copied directly from here. You really ought to read through that page and understand it.

Your current rewrite rule, as it stands, sends every request to a local server path that your apache config probably cannot deliver ('/' is the root directory of your server not the root of your website). Apache in turn will try to respond to that with an error page, which in turn gets redirected to the '/' again, hence an infinite redirect.

The above code only redirects requests NOT bound for example.com and preserves the rest of the URL when it redirects.

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@Frith620

Your directive causes an infinite redirection loop.

The reason is that a 301 gets returned to the browser and that host and path are really separate things, despite forming a URL. When a browser sees a 301 redirect to site.com/ it interprets it as find site.com and ask for the / path from the standard HTTP port.

With your unconditional rule, which is valid for site.com, the 301 is returned again which sends them in an infinite loop.

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