Why would someone leave the door open when redirecting www to non-www using via the .htaccess. Please first make all traffic encrypted from http to https and THEN redirect from www to non-www. Here’s the trick:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]
Note: this only works in Apache. Cheers!
I checked a few forums for answers and could not find the trick. Finally, I did a little troubleshooting and followed a post online and it worked (credits below) and here’s the trick. Hint, the last step is the MOST IMPORTANT, LOL!
In order to get the VM connected to the internet, you have to tie it to the Ethernet/Wireless NIC Card. In order to do this, you have to create a “Virtual Switch”.
Action –> Virtual Switch Manager
External and then Create Virtual Switch
Note: You must select the way that you are actually connecting to the internet. IE, if your computer is set up to use Wifi or Ethernet, but is currently using Ethernet, you must use Ethernet – the Wifi connection will not work because the host machine isn’t currently using it.
Apply and then OKSettings
Network Adapter Setting select the newly created Virtual Switch
IMPORTANT: you may have to do a ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew (Windows) or a sudo dhclient -v -r and sudo dhclient -v (Linux) on the remote machine to get it to renew its DHCP settings and retrieve an IP address.
ALSO VERY IMPORTANT:
FULL CREDITS TO JAMES MERTZ: https://superuser.com/questions/469806/windows-8-hyper-v-how-to-give-vm-internet-access