Force "www" in URL

[ThaSpY]

Not sure if this is PHP related, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to throw the bone anyways.

I want visitors to my domain to be forced to use www.domain.com, instead of trying to view just domain.com. Basically redirect anything under the domain (domain.com/other/links) to include the "www" (www.domain.com/other/links).

This is basically so cookies will not double set themselves, so it looks looks good, and also just to keep things in order.

[madwormer2]

Look into .htaccess

I'm sure some of the members will tell you more about it.

[ThaSpY]

I would appreciate their feedback.

[tenbellys]

to do this your website needs to use apache

if your running iis on windows it wont work

open your .htaccess file, same folder as your index.html, index.php etc file

add this to it

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\..+ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

then try it

works for me,

if you go to http://tenbellys.com it sends you to www.tenbellys.com

[ThaSpY]

Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for.

However, it doesn't seem to work with subdomains (HTTP 404 - File not found). Could you write exception code, or explain another workaround? Thanks!

[tenbellys]

ill have a go this evening for you when i finish work (about 6pm gmt) if no body has done it first

[thorpe]

you might want to check out www.modrewrite.com and have a crack at it yourself.

[ThaSpY]

I gave it a look over already thorpe, but mind you I first opened a .htaccess file yesterday, so it'll take more than a skip and a jump to get anywhere close to this kind of stuff.

And thank you very much tenbellys.

[ThaSpY]

Bump.

Anyone able to shed some light on this problem?

[ThaSpY]

Fixed my problem, mostly.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^dev\..* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^files\..* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^forums\..* [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

I have to list all my subdomains manually, so I hope there's an easier way.

However, how would I modify this to redirect "www.subdomain.domain.com" to "subdomain.domain.com"?

If there is no subdomain, force www. If there is subdomain, take away www. That's what I'm trying to accomplish in the long run. Halfway there.