Trouble with www. redirect (.htaccess)

I’m trying to get a simple www. to non www. redirect set up. Here’s the .htaccess

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.org/$1 [L,R=301]RewriteBase /########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
### Deny access to extension xml files (uncomment out to activate)
#<Files ~ "\.xml$">
#Order allow,deny
#Deny from all
#Satisfy all
#</Files>## End of deny access to extension xml files
# Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]#
########## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploitsRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

Accessing the www.domain.org page results in page not found.
If I modify the top lines like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain123.org/$1 [L,R=301]

The redirect works great (it goes to http://domain123.org)

There are no RewriteCond’s for domain.org in the apache httpd.conf file (where the virtualhosts are configured, specifically domain.org).

apachectl -S:

VirtualHost configuration:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443    domain.org (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:173)
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80     domain.org (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1011)
Syntax OK

Relevant sections of each config:
ssl.conf:

<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443>DocumentRoot /blah/blah/
ServerName domain.orgErrorLog /blah/blah/
CustomLog /blah/blah/
LogLevel warn
SSLEngine on
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW
SSLCertificateFile /blah/blah/
SSLCertificateKeyFile /blah/blah/
SSLCACertificateFile /blah/blah/<Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php3?)$">
    SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Files>
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
    SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
         nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
         downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \
          "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
</VirtualHost>

http.conf:

<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80>    ServerName domain.org
    ServerAdmin me@domain.org
    DocumentRoot /blah/blah/
    ErrorLog /blah/blah/
    CustomLog /blah/blah/</VirtualHost>

Help greatly appreciated!

There was not an entry in our DNS for www.domain.com. Adding that solved the problem (or at least routed that traffic to my server, where I implemented the redirect above).

Thanks for the commentary.

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