: Need .htaccess mod_rewrite for serving static content from subdomain, but forcing www otherwise I have a website where I currently force example.com visits to www.example.com, and it has an SSL

@Miguel251

Method 1

With RewriteCond you can add this (after your existing rules):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|icon)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]


If the request is done on example.com, and the file requested end by jpg or jpeg or png or gif or ico or icon (case not sensitive) it will redirect to example.com%{REQUEST_URI} with status 301 (redirect permanent), but you need to change this to not do a redirect loop:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example..+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]


Please note that I changed the following code:


FROM: www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} TO: www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}


This should prevent 1 useless redirect from to .
Method 2

If you want to redirect in each case example.com to example.com (except images) then you will have to do the following:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule .* %{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|icon)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|icon)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

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@Cugini213

First of all, you should start by redirecting all website traffic by using a redirect statement which is optional but highly recommended by Apache:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias example.com
# [ Http to Https ]
Redirect 301 / www.example.com/ </VirtualHost>


Then you can redirect your images using the following code:

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com RedirectMatch 301 .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|icon)$ example.com/%{REQUEST_URI} </VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com
</VirtualHost>

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