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seaside man
PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:42 pm 
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Hi, schooboy error and my mind has gone blank but my new website does not have the www. before the domain name so instead of it looking like www.example.com it shows on the address bar example.com

can anyone let me know what i have done as it was correct last week

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:42 am 
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Have you specified your live site URL in the configuration file without the www?

It's a good idea to add the following code to your .htaccess file. Not only will this solve your url showing without the www prefix, it will consolidate all the possible urls people could use to get to your home page into one url so your page rank isn't split between the various urls, which will help your search engine ranking. This will redirect requests for http://mydomain.com or http://mydomain.com/index.php to http://www.mydomain.com

The following htaccess code will take care of www vs. non-www and redirect index.php or index.html or index.htm (take your pick) to /. Note the index.php redirection to http://www.mydomain.com/ is done before non-www to www redirection.

Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
#
#redirect index.php to / (do this before non-www to www)
# to redirect index.htm and index.html to / change .php to the appropriate suffix(do this before non-www to www)
#
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html?$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# redirect mydomain.com -> www.mydomain.com
#
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Of course, don't forget to change mydomain.com to your actual domain name.
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