How to implement a 301 redirect correctly?

Question

htaccess

There is a site with implemented CNC (I will show on the example of one page).
Here is the NC implementation on one of the pages:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^news/(sport)$ /pages/news.php?type=sport [L]

i.e. the page is available at example.com/news/sport I
recently started removing duplicate pages using 301 redirects. Here is an example of my redirect from www to non- www :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

So, the problem is that when I click on the link:
www.example.com/news/sport , in theory I should go to
example.com/news/sport (without www), but in the end I go to
example.com /pages/news.php?type=sport (for some reason there is no cnc here)
All cncs are reset!!! What's the matter? How to fix???

Answer 1

301 redirect set higherRewriteRule ^news/(sport)$ /pages/news.php

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^news/(sport)$ /pages/news.php?type=sport [L]

Answer 2

redirect from www to non-www with https

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}_%{HTTP_HOST} ^(?|off_(?:www\.)?(.*)|on_www\.(.*)) [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%1/$0 [R=301,L]