I want to enable auto-verification of deep links in Android for which I need to host the file assetlinks.json on my server https://mycompany.com. This will allow auto-verification of my deep links when the app is installed. The problem is, we have redirect setup such that all requests from https://mycompany.com go to https://www.mycompany.com. As a result, when I put the file in the .well-known folder, it gets hosted on https://www.mycompany.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json which does not satisfy the requirement for Android's domain validator.
See domain non-redirect section here https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10710301?sjid=18198349224505489730-NA
So if I try to open the url https://mycompany.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json it gets redirected to https://www.mycompany.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json and the file shows up in the broswer, so opening the url in browser is not a good test. Rather, I can use curl command in the terminal to find out whats going wrong.
curl https://www.mycompany.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json will return with contents of the file but curl https://mycompany.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json will not.
I am seeing other companies being able to do that like say, Lyft.
When we execute the command curl https://lyft.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json in terminal, you can see they host the file correctly on their server without the www regardless of having a redirect in place for other url links, so if we put https://lyft.com it is still getting redirected to https://www.lyft.com correctly.
How do we acheive this? How can we keep the redirect and still put an exception for one such url path that has assetlinks.json in the end?
My company website is hosted on Apache HTTP server
