Forcing www in your site’s URLs

When I wanted the www to be prepended when any page on one of my sites was accessed I found this or a near cousin of it on various site:

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

I added it to my .htaccess but it didn’t work.

I have various funny things going on there so later I moved it up to be the first thing after

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

And it works fine.

Always some niggling little detail.

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