Trouble redirecting non www urls to www

[moundtown]

I'm trying to make non www urls to my site redirect to www urls. When I place the command below (replacing mysite.com with my actual domain of course) in the .htaccess my site cannot be accessed at all. Am I doing something wrong?

   RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Mine is a tiny bit different

RewriteEngine On

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

No ! in the first line.

If that doesn't work, what hosting company are you using so we can try and find the right way for that particular company. Sometimes what works for one host doesn't always work for another.

[moundtown]

Originally Posted by HTMLBasicTutor

Mine is a tiny bit different

RewriteEngine On

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

No ! in the first line.

If that doesn't work, what hosting company are you using so we can try and find the right way for that particular company. Sometimes what works for one host doesn't always work for another.

Thanks for responding. Somebody gave me this code yesterday and it worked.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.mysite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]