How to redirect ServerAlias - requests to ServerName and obey the subdirectories in the requests?

Question

I want redirect all traffic to example.com/* to be redirected to www.example.com/*

I found How can I redirect any ServerAlias to the respective ServerName? which handles the topic in question and did what was recommended in the answer with four upvotes:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  !^www.example.com [nocase]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$        http://www.example.com$1 [last,redirect=301]

However, this redirect traffic going to http://example.com/subdirectory to http://www.example.com and not to http://www.example.com/subdirectory as desired.

Any medication on this issue?

Your rewrite is ok. Works as intended (tested :). It must be something else with your configuration. — RJS, Oct 15 '12 at 16:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '12 at 17:17

The correct way to do this is to create a new vhost and redirect in that:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName example.com
  Redirect / http://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.example.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/something
</VirtualHost>

How to redirect ServerAlias - requests to ServerName and obey the subdirectories in the requests?

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