: "example.com" forwards to "www.example.com", but "example.com/file.pdf" just forwards to "www.example.com". How to fix? I don't know much anything about how hosting works, so if there's any additional

@Courtney195

First of all,you need to know type of content. redirection is perfect.
If you are redirecting based on server config(Apache), it is perfect.
example.com/file.pdf deposit as file and its source is example.com
so example.com redirect to example.com as deposit content as pdf

Upto this level,it is working fine.

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@Heady270

You have implemented this redirect with Namecheap. Their help document explains how to set up the redirects either way:


www1 destination.com Permanent (301)
www2 destination.com/ Permanent (301)


In the above case, www1.yourdomain.com will not pass values to the destination URL so, www1.yourdomain.com/xyz.html will redirect users to destination.com only.

On the otherhand, www2.yourdomain.com/xyz.html will redirect users to destination.com/xyz.html (pay attention to the / in the configuration).


So in Namecheap's interface, you need to ensure that your redirect rules have a trailing slash on the destination.

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@LarsenBagley505

What you could do is make example.com and example.com as separate URLs pointing to two different folders on the server, but make example.com point to the folder with the website contents.

Then these lines can be added to apache's main configuration file (httpd.conf) if you have mod_rewrite installed.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.example.com/ [R=301,L]


Just make sure they are added before custom RewriteRule lines are processed for the example.com website if any.

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