I have the following in .htaccess in apache2/htdocs

Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.rightsizesolutions\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.rightsizesolutions.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

but when I type -rightsizesolutions.co.uk into a browser it resolves to the servers IP address rather than -http://www.rightsizesolutions.co.uk

What am I doing wrong?

301 redirect that IP to http://www.rightsizesolutions.co.uk/ as well.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3229238.htm

Amazing - thank you so much for the quick response.

In case anyone else comes across this I had to change my .htaccess files (I have a few) from

Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^-www\.rightsizesolutions\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ -http://www.rightsizesolutions.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

to

Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^-www\.rightsizesolutions\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^176\.34\.235\.230 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ -http://www.rightsizesolutions.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

and it works fine now (note you have to remove '-' from the front of URLS as I cannot post URLs on this forum)

Well I spoke to soon.

Doesn't seem to work properly on IE - some images are not displayed correctly when accessing without the www.

Is my syntax correct?

You have to change rightsizesolutions\.co.uk to rightsizesolutions\.co\.uk and use [OR,NC]

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [OR,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^123\.45\.67\.89
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Another approach:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(example\.com|123\.45\.67\.89) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6918 ... -or-and-nc

Thanks

Finally got it working..

I think it was confused by further URL rewriting rules before it so I put it to the top of .htaccess

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Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.rightsizesolutions\.co.uk$ [OR,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^176\.34\.235\.230 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.rightsizesolutions.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]


Ok, great that it's finally working!

Comment: Thank you so much guys for the quick response. This problem of unwanted redirect had been plaguing me for some time. The fix worked perfectly for me. As far as IE is concerned, I haven’t used it in ages and so it is not of a concern for me.