htaccess for www-only redirection

Question

hi guys!

Is there any way I can redirect my urls to only use http://www.domain.com instead of http://domain.com?

Here's my htaccess but doesnt work:

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Installation directory
# RewriteBase /test/
Options +FollowSymlinks

# Protect application and system files from being viewed
RewriteRule ^(application|modules|system) - [F,L]

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

#redirec

#detect urls without www
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^thehotelinventory.com [NC]

#redirect to www, does not work though
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thehotelinventory.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

AddHandler php5-script .php

Answer 1

a simple answer can be found here: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2264