put this into root of the domain into the .htaccess file
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^.*YOURDOMAIN\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Jobst
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:08:59PM -0600, Ski Dawg (centos at skidawg.org) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Part of our website has secured access with an SSL certificate. The
> problem we are running into is that the certificate is for
> www.domainname.com, so when they go to domainname.com (without the
> www. in front), the users are getting a "This connection is untrusted"
> warning, because the url doesn't match the certificate.
>
> I found one site that said to make a change to the apache conf file,
> which I have done. The change that I made is adding:
> <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80>
> ServerName domainname.com
> Redirect permanent / http://www.domainname.com/
> </VirtualHost>
>
> This works great to redirect the users to http://www.domainname.com
> when they go to http://domainname.com.
>
> The problem I am running into is if they go to https://domainname.com
> (straight to the secure site), I am not able to find a solution that
> will redirect them to https://www.domainname.com, so that the ssl
> certificate matches and they won't get the "This connection is
> untrusted" warning.
>
> I tried using the same thing as above, but changing the port number to
> 443, and the http to https on the redirect line, but that actually
> breaks the site, and only displays an error:
> Secure Connection Failed
> (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
>
> Is there something obvious that I am missing? Is there a better way to
> ensure that everyone will always end up with the www in the url, so
> the certificate always matches?
>
> Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> --
> Doug
>
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