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First, why would you want to redirect a user from http://www.your-domain.com to http://your-domain.com, or vice versa?  Here are two simple reasons:

1. SSL is only for either www.your-domain.com or yourdomain.com - in the case that you purchase SSL for an online store or secure data transfer area of your website, you can be consistent.
2. SEO efforts work better when you are consistent.  By choosing www or no-www, you can focus your SEO strategy when linking to your site.

Here's the code:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.your-domain\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://your-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The other way 'round

If you want to do the opposite, then use this:

# redirect if www.example.com (case-insensitive) to example.com 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com [NC] 
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

Tags: htaccess redirect ssl seo