Redirect non-www to www WITHOUT forcing https

Question

I have a client who has an http SEO'ed wordpress site, with https AdWords static html landing pages (I know - don't ask). They want to 301 all non-www to www. I tried the following htaccess code:

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

This works great for getting all URLs redirected to www from non-www. However it also changes all https URLs to http.

How can I get it so that all non-www redirect to www, but http and https are NOT affected.

For example:

http://example.com/seo-page -> http://www.example.com/seo-page

and

https://example.com/ppc-page -> https://www.example.com/ppc-page

Thanks

EDT: Existing .htaccess is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule .* - [E=CANONICAL:http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI},NE]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteRule .* - [E=CANONICAL:https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI},NE]
</IfModule>

I guess you’ll have to do this separately for each case, because there isn’t really a way to get this info as a back reference or something like that AFAIK. An additional RewriteCond that checks for HTTPS, preceding a Rule that rewrites to https://... explicitly. — CBroe
Thanks @CBroe. Any idea how to do this? I'd rather not do them individually as there are about 100 https ppc landing pages - and over 400 http SEO pages. — Josh N
By each case I meant HTTP and HTTPS, not each individual URL ... — CBroe

Mohammed Elhag Mohammed Elhag · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-12T11:43:26

Try this :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Save .htaccess and try this :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.) 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}:s on:(s)
RewriteRule .* - [E=CANONICAL:http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI},NE]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}:s on:(s)
RewriteRule .* - [E=CANONICAL:http%1://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI},NE]
</IfModule>

Redirect non-www to www WITHOUT forcing https

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