Redirect http://example to http://www.example.com AND https://example.com to https://www.example.com

Question

As the question states, I want to redirect http://example to http://www.example.com AND https://example.com to https://www.example.com.

I tried the apache re-write rules:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

#jmv-this should work, but does not
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

but only http://example.com gets redirected to http://www.example.com. When I go to https://example.com I stay at https://example.com

I think these rules should work. What's the problem?

Answer 1

AllowOverride elsewhere in the configuration can inadvertently disable the use of .htaccess files - which seems to have been the case here!