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.htaccess file settings

Dear Experts,

my htacces file is like below:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

I redirect all http pages to https pages, it works perfectly fine.

in addition to this, I want to redirect all page request like

http://google.com to https://www.google.com  ( I want to convert http to https and I want to use also www if my user do not type it )

otherwise google analytics calculate the pages like they are separate pages

could you please help me?

I use php and mysql
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Let me suggest a slightly different concept.  Let your subdomains mean something.  Here are some examples:

example.com -- no subdomain, the canonical representation of your web site
www.example.com- - rewrite to remove www and redirect to example.com
test.example.com -- the test version of your site; do not rewrite
docs.example.com -- the documentation for your site; do not rewrite
api.domain.com -- the RESTful API to your site; do not rewrite

This design will preserve good information for Google Analytics and will allow you to use relative links in your markup.  It's good enough for Twitter ;-)
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Dear Ray, thank you very much.

You are right. In the future, I would need subdomains.
Canonical representation is better for my web site.

Sould I do it like this?
if my user request my web site example.com, I should redirect to https://example.com
if my user writes www.example.com, I should use Canonical representation https://example.com 
right?
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thank you Ray,
you are great.