Apache www to non-www redirect on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Question

I've recently moved a simple PHP site to Elastic Beanstalk but am finding it difficult to redirect the www.example.com to example.com. It's not https which most of the suggestions I have found are related to.

This is what I have:

Route53:

A      example.com      example.eu-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com (Alias)
CNAME  www.example.com  example.eu-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com

And in my .htaccess file I have the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^ %{ENV:PROTO}://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

When visiting example.com everything is fine but visiting www.example.com gives me a redirect loop:

http://www.example.com/var/www/html/://example.com/var/www/html/://example.com

Is this the best way to redirect on AWS?

EDIT

I have now also tried

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !=https [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(www\.)?(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://%2/$1 [L,R=301]

and while www.example.com does redirect to example.com, it now has the redirect loop (althought without the server path in the address bar).

Answer 1

This is not a solution to your .htaccess problem, but an easy redirect solution is to redirect using an S3 bucket.

1. Setup an S3 bucket for www.example.com and set it up for website redirection to example.com
2. Set the record set for www.example.com in Route 53 as an ALIAS for this bucket.

This way, when your user goes to www.example,com, they will hit the bucket and that will redirect them to example.com, which will then go to your server.