Modx Evolution ht.accc non-www to www not working

[leroy30]

Hey guys.

Not very often I'm stuck enough to ask a question lol! But I am not very familiar with PHP or Apache (I normally do .Net websites) and I'm at a loss as to why I can't get my non-www to www redirect working!

The website is using a CMS called ModX evolution. I don't think this matters but just in case.

I am attempting the redirect in the ht.access file. The contents of which are below (with the real URL swapped out).

# For full documentation and other suggested options, please see
# http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Friendly+URL+Solutions
# including for unexpected logouts in multi-server/cloud environments
# and especially for the first three commented out rules

#php_flag register_globals Off
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
#php_value date.timezone Europe/Moscow

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Fix Apache internal dummy connections from breaking [(site_url)] cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Rewrite domain.com -> www.domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
 #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^the-website\.co.nz [NC]
 #RewriteRule (.*) http://www.the-website.co.nz/$1 [R=301,L]
 
# 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d 
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?q=$1 [QSA,L] 

# Exclude /assets and /manager directories and images from rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^(manager|assets)/*$ - [L]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico)$ - [L]

# For Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

# Reduce server overhead by enabling output compression if supported.
#php_flag zlib.output_compression On
#php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

Any ideas what's wrong here? I'm not even seeing an error which makes things difficult!

 

[leroy30]

I worked it out..

Change ht.access to .htaccess and it works a treat.

I guess that's my lack of Apache knowledge coming through!