Redirect from www to without www, except for the robots.txt file

Question

I do in the .htaccess file redirect from www to the main host in the following way:

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

We must make sure that this rule does not apply to robots.txt, that is, there is no redirect to http://www.site.com/robots.txt

Visman Visman 16.2k eight 21 52 · Answer 1 · 2016-03-30T10:56:37

I think another RewriteCond form

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !robots\.txt

before RewriteRule will help you.

Then robots.txt is available only from www, if you enter without www you redirect to www.

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