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[madcat]

Hi All-

Many people are coming to my site, leaving off the 'www' part of the URL. To work in appliance with a script that I have, I need them to come through the www.mysite.com domain. So, I need a way for the page to redirect to www.mysite.com when they type in just mysite.com.

Everything I try creates a loop and crashes the browser. That is:

<meta-http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.mysite.com/"> or PHP,
header("Location: [mysite.com")......]

Both create loops. Any help is appreciated!

[jdMorgan]

madcat,

You could use a server-side redirect. Try a WebmasterWorld site search for "301 redirect" and you'll finds tons of info. You'll have to sort the threads out by server type to get the right method for your server.

HTH,
Jim

[MWpro]

Technically aren't www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com the same thing?

I found a few neat ones on google, type in "better redirect script" or something along those lines and you should come across some good ones.

[madcat]

Excellent, thanks for your help...

Yeah they're the same, but for some reason my scripts become disabled without the full domain. Strange to me.

[jdMorgan]

www.example.com is a subdomain of example.com, and is not the same thing - unless your DNS zone file is set up to treat them the same (admittedly, many are).

Check out the server-side redirect threads - more efficient than scripting and it's a "set and forget."

Jim

[4serendipity]

If you're running apache and mod_rewrite is installed the following should work:

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

[jdMorgan]

You'll need a space in front of the "!" for this to work. The WebmasterWorld posting routine deletes these spaces.
Jim