It looks as though you have done some extensive rewriting of the code I provided at http://www.stepforth.com/faq/non-www-redirect.htm

What you should be doing is ONLY replacing “example.com” with your domain in the sample from the tutorial. The spacing, the carriage returns… everything else should be the same.

If you have further problems let me know. That said, the code that is within the tutorial has been utilized extensively without error.

Good luck!
Ross

As per your technical tutorial, I have this in my .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.greatoffers4u\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.greatoffers4u.com/$1 [L,R=301]

However, this is what happens when visiting a password protected page, instead of going to http://www.greatoffers4u.com/update it redirects to the 401 error page! Can you advise?

[offers@web www]$ lynx -dump -head http://greatoffers4u.com/update
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:01:22 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.2.1 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1
.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.8a
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=”Restricted Area”
Location: http://www.greatoffers4u.com/401.shtml
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1