How do I setup redirection for https://example.com to https://www.example.com

Question

I have domain like, example.com where I want https://example.com to be redirected to https://www.example.com/

Does anyone have any recommendation on how to set this up?

I tried setting up a apache virtual host for example.com on the same server and added a redirection rule. But, https://example.com does not redirect. Instead, files get served for the request.

I also get the error _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence when starting apache.

Answer 1

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

Put that in a .htaccess in the root of the Document_Root for that domain

Answer 2

The following should do it:-

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
  RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R,L]
</IfModule>

Just make sure you have a LoadModule for mod-rewrite in there before this lot.