[RESOLVED] Obligatory prefixing access the site with www.

[saidbakr]

Hi,

Suppose that I have website hosted on a linux based hosting. The website has the domain name mysite.com . It is possible to access the website using both http://www.mysite.com and http://mysite.com

What I need is to set only one way to access the website. For example let we say http://www.mysite.com and therefore if the user try to access it as http://mysite.com the URL will automatically redirected into http://www.mysite.com or even page not found error be as a result.

Is this possible by .httaccess or it requires something done from the hosting company? and How if yes?

[benracer]

Redirect visitor by domain name
DESCRIPTION: In some cases the same web site is accessible by different addresses, like domain.com, www.domain.com, www.domain2.com and we want to redirect it to one address.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^{www.domain.com$} [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]

EXPLAIN: In this case the requested URL http://domain.com/foo.html would redirected to the URL http://www.domain.com/foo.html.

http://www.widexl.com/scripts/documentation/mod_rewrite.html

[saidbakr]

Thank you very good answer