It may be simplistic, but I do this with a second VirtualHost. <VirtualHost *> ServerName www.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /foo/bar </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *> ServerName mydomain.com Redirect / http://www.mydomain.com/ </VirtualHost> Since my SSL certificate is configured only for the www version of my URL, I have to make sure that no matter which URL they use to enter the site, they are immediately redirected to the www version of that URL. Including the / on the end of the Redirect domain allows my server to also handle requests directly to subpages & subdirectories with the non-www address, ensuring that those URL are rewritten as well. But this can become tedious if you have a large number of URLs that you need to do this for. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Ionescu [mailto:bobsiegen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:34 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: rewrite rule ideas needed.. 2009/1/9 Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > But how can I create a setup that will simple add www to any of the valid > ServerAlias names listed in the virtual host? They shall keep the domain > name part as is, and not rewrite to one name only. Have a look at the last example of the section "Canonical Hostnames": http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html#canonicalhost But make sure, you're sending a 301 redirect (R=301) for search engines. Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx