: Why does apache redirect to www without RewriteRule So I have a webserver running on Apache, with a few virtual hosts. I want to default to https and hence I have a rewrite rule. <VirtualHost

@Courtney195

Posted in: #Apache2 #Htaccess #ModRewrite #Redirects #UrlRewriting

So I have a webserver running on Apache, with a few virtual hosts. I want to default to https and hence I have a rewrite rule.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias example.com example.com RewriteEngine on
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) %{HTTP_HOST}/ [NC,R,L]
</VirtualHost>


The interesting thing is that, I always see multiple 301 happening. ie example.com/something -> example.com/something -> www.example.com/something

I thought it might be the ServerAlias that is causing the issue, so I split the conf to 2 separate rules

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
RewriteEngine on
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) %{HTTP_HOST}/ [NC,R,L]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com RewriteEngine on
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) %{HTTP_HOST}/ [NC,R,L]
</VirtualHost>


Still getting the same result. I don't have any rules anywhere to redirect to www, user enters example.com and without www, and I'm confused where does the second redirect come from.
I also don't have any .htaccess rules to perform redirects. What am I doing wrong here ?

Edit : Problem identified as a wordpress plugin doing the redirect. Thanks for hints from community.

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