Redirecting www to non-www while maintaining the protocol HTTP or HTTPS

Question

I\'m attempting to redirect www to non-www for both HTTP and HTTPS requests. My root .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^w         


        

Answer 1

The first rule is taking precedence over https request because it simply met the rewrite condition. The first rule basically tells that match the domain and you can have your rewriterule to kick off. Instead add another condition which tells if its not https request

So try this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

You need ssl certificate for https protocol to work

Also I've added [L] flag which tells to not process further rules