use htaccess to add www with https support

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There are a lot of code examples for using .htaccess to add www to a url but they are usually confined to using http. does anybody have an example of how to get it to work in both cases?

Accepted Answer

Sure:

```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```

The second condition checks if the HTTPS environment variable (either `on` or `off`) is set to `on` and captures the appended `s` that is then available with `%1`. If it doesn’t match, `%1` is just an empty string.

use htaccess to add www with https support

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