Just an update for clarity:

current situation

1. User enters http://website.com/folder
2. automatically redirects to http://www.website.com/folder (or /folder/? can’t tell, it happens too quick)
3. instantaneously redirects to http://website.com/folder/

desired situation

1. User enters http://website.com/folder
2. just goes to http://website.com/folder or http://website.com/folder/

Also let me mention my website is kensch.com/ratemypennstate

please try to go to kensch.com/ratemypennstate and watch it go to www and back to non-www. It’s really annoying.

kensch.com/ratemypennstate/ (with the slash at the end) works fine.

Hi Ken,

What web server software are you using to host your site? What does the config for your site look like?

Hey Brook, I appreciate you helping me with this.
I am running Apache. Can you point me to the config for the information that you need?

For domain record settings, i have an entry of @ pointing to my server ip address and an entry of www pointing to my server ip address

Here is what is in this file:
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/kensch.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName kensch.com
ServerAlias www.kensch.com
ServerAdmin email@email.com(redacted)
DocumentRoot /var/www/kensch.com
ErrorLog ${APACHELOGDIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHELOGDIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

<Directory /var/www/kensch.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

Here is my ../www/kensch.com/.htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

My first blush is that it’s related to the rewrite regex - and that there’s a case with the trailing / being there or not that is causing this. I’ll investigate and get back to you.