Redirect with www not working - php

Question

I recently switched from a shared hosting to a VPS.
Everything is working fine and I can access al of my domains.
But I seem to have 1 problem:
In the past all non-www url's where redirected to url's with www.
I did this with the following htaccess.txt code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tx3\.be$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.tx3.be/$1 [R=301,L]
But I'm using a new htaccess at the time with the following code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^off(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
But both are not working on redirecting my non-www domain.
When I visit my non-www domain, I get the following page:
"Apache is functioning normally"
I tried using the DirectAdmin redirect for redirecting the non-www domain to a domain with www, but that also didn't work.
Maybe I've got it all wrong and it wasn't a htaccess problem in the first place.
Did I forget something in my server settings?
I don't know, everything looks to be in order.
(I did double check my DNS settings and they appear to be fine)
Does anyone know what I should be doing next?

Answer 1

Please try this
Rewriteengine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Answer 2

If using windows download putty (ssh client) give it your servers ip address select type as ssh and click open.
It'll ask you for a username and password give it your root username and password (should have been provided by vps hosting company)
Now cd through to your apache config folder (I'm only familiar with debian based setups if you're using a redhat based setup you may have to google correct path) /etc/apache2/sites-available
Now look at the directory listings (ls) and it'll show you the apache configs available chances are you'll have something like www.tx3.be in there. Edit that file I recommend using pico or nano by doing pico
Here's an example off my server
root#hinch:/home/hinch# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
root#hinch:/etc/apache2/sites-available# ls
default
default-ssl
root#hinch:/etc/apache2/sites-available# pico default
Now you're in your apache config file you'll see something like this
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin root#yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm default.htm default.html default.php
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
After the line that says ServerAdmin add in the following
ServerAlias tx3.be
ServerAlias www.tx3.be
Save the file and restart apache
service apache2 restart or service httpd restart
Delete all redirect code from your .htaccess and make sure you have both the www. dns A record and the #. A record pointing to your servers ip address. Now regardless of which version of the domain the user goes to they'll see your site.