Why my domain opening without www

[Surendra Singh]

i have a domain called (mydomain.org)

when i enter my domain in address bar like this e.g (mydomain.org),Its opening and i can see my website


but when i try with www.mydomain.org, its redirect to http:// mydomain.org



I want my website address proper e.g. http:// www. mydomain.org and most important when anyone open my website without www it will redirect to proper url (http:// www. mydomain.org)automatically.

How can I do this all. please help me;

Thank You

[not2easy]

Hi Surendra, you don't mention what kind of site or server you are using so I'm only giving very general answers - on Apache you would want to add a canonical rewrite to your .htaccess file. If it is Wordpress you can do this in your Settings. If it is something else, you would need a different answer.

[lucy24]

Clearly this is not your own server, and it sounds as if you currently don't have an htaccess (or equivalent in That Other Server) at all. So I will guess that you're on shared hosting. Somewhere on the host's control panel there is a checkbox where you can specify the preferred form of your domain name, with or without www. It's good that it currently defaults to one form; you just need to find the setting and change it to the other form.

I want my website address proper

Well, for a given definition of "proper" ;) There have been long, long discussions about this.

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld, Surendra Singh!

the response should include a 301 status code and a Location: HTTP Response header that refers to a URL that specifies the canonical protocol and hostname.

[piatkow]

As an aside the copy of Firefox 32 that I am using automatically adds in a www for example.com. I cross checked with IE and it is definitely the browser doing this rather than the server.

I agree with Lucy24 that you have probably simply failed to change a default on your cpanel.

[lucy24]

the copy of Firefox 32 that I am using automatically adds in a www

Yikes.
:: quick detour to check ::
There must be some other variable, because mine (FF 32 for Mac) doesn't do this. Whew.

[piatkow]

Using a different machine also with FF32 and no www added. A little Googling reveals a function called "domain guessing". Why my copy downloaded with it on and this copy with it off I have no idea.

[RandallTT]

Hi, www is just a prefix used by mostly old websites. Newer websites tend to not have the prefix "www" because in the first place it is just put there to show that you owned a piece of prime real estate on the World Wide Web.

[lucy24]

I do believe each separate assertion in the preceding post could lead to several pages of heated argument ;)

[not2easy]

Not to mention that it does nothing to address the OP..