www domain redirects to non-www domain

[zkos]

Hello!
I built my website using Joomla 3 and I have a question regarding the canonical url: the www version of my domain (http://www.domain.com) redirects to the non-www version (http://domain.com)
I didn't change anything in .htaccess, it just started the moment I installed Joomla, so I guess it's just the default configuration of Joomla 3.
I know it doesn't affect SEO on my website, but I am just wondering: Is it possible to make it work the other way round, that is, the non-www version redirects to the www version?
Thanks in advance for your time! Any help is welcome!

[fcoulter]

There is nothing in the default Joomla installation that redirects either from www version of the domain or the other way around.

It might help if you could give the actual url of your site, then it will be possible to look at the .htaccess to see if there is anything in it that would cause this.

Also it is possible that a system plugin could be doing this, take a look at the system SEF plugin, see if the canonical url has been added there, if you are using any SEF extension they may well have their own plugins that are creating the redirect. Also check your configuration.php file, look to see if anything has been set for the live_site parameter.

[zkos]

Thanks for the reply!

I've already checked all these. The .htaccess file is the default file that comes with Joomla 3.3 (actually it's htaccess.txt)
The canonical url at the system SEF plugin is empty and also the value of the live_site parameter is empty...

I have no idea why this is happening...

[fcoulter]

It would still help to be able to see the actual site.

[zkos]

Finally, it has to do with the hosting settings on my Plesk panel. There is the "Preferred Domain" option where the default value is the non-www version of the domain.
Thanks again for all your help and sorry to have wasted your time...

[fcoulter]

No problem - fixing a problem like this is often a matter of just ruling out everything you can think of. If you had not asked the question you would probably still be thinking that this was just something that Joomla does.

[monlike]

i think better solution for this problem
use google webmaster tools

[JamesTeters]

Use this format if you want a request for any URL at www.example.com to redirect to the same page at example.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [nocase]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://example.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]

[fcoulter]

Yes, generally this will work if there are no other redirects in place, but the problem that zkos had was that there was already a redirect in place, redirecting from http://www.example.com to http://example.com, what he/she needed to know was what was causing it and how to stop it.

And just putting in another redirect from http://example.com to http://www.example.com into the .htaccess file would almost certainly not be the solution, you can easily end up with an infinite redirect loop in that situation, making the site completely inaccessible.

[coquilla18]

this works on me..

read!
http://www.sanitypost.com/how-to/33-how ... w-url.html

[onlinershub]

These are canonical issues. By default, it will result to a www and non-www unless you will specify which one you want it apply.

[tasolglobal2014]

As per my experience you should go with third party extension like "SH404SEF". Once you install the extension then go to the configuration and then go to the "advance setting" tab, there you will find an option which say's "Enforce website with www or non www" you just need to select the www option and your problem will be solved.

Now you will find your website will automatically open with "www"

Hope it will be helpful for you.

[fcoulter]

Clearly you have not read the previous posts properly. zkos stated clearly it was a setting in the plesk control panel and was now fixed.

Doing as you suggest in this circumstance would definitely not be the solution, it would result in an infinite loop, which means that any request would be automatically redirected to the non www site by the plesk setting, then redirected back from there to the www site by sh404sef, and so on ad-infinitum. It would completely crash the site.

Really this problem has been solved, there is nothing further that needs to be added.

[coquilla18]

This article will teach you on how to redirect www to non-www or vice versa
check the link.. cheers!
http://www.sanitypost.com/how-to/33-how ... w-url.html