Wordpress blog redirect non www to www

Here is what i have so far in .htaccess, this created by Wordpress:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I have tried the following, no success:


redirect 301 mysite.com/old-file-name.htm http://www.mysite.com/old-file-name.htm
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]


Result is that it is going to my www.mysite.com not www.mysite.com/old-file.htm


I have also tried this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]
# END WordPress

But none seem to work. It give not found error. can someone help me out. In Wordpress settings I have the following:

Options -> General->Wordpress address: http://www.mysite.com
Options -> General->blog address: http://www.mysite.com

Permalink structure
Custom

Thanks,

 

I am using the following before the rewrites:

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

 

There's an even easier way to do it, check out the www enforcer plugin by my friend Mark.

http://txfx.net/code/

it's a plugin that redirects for you, no htaccess editing involved...

 

I just upload the into the plugin and activated.
Question about this:

"From now on, you can edit slugs without worry! If you have an old post whose slug you changed (prior to installing the plugin), you can manually add an old_slug Custom Field for that entry, and it will be forwarded."

You mean I have to modify every old blog posting I have.

My problem is this:
google see my web as two: mysite.com and www.mysite.com
msn has indexed my site as mysite.com/archieve/blah

When I do the redirect so the traffic coming from msn will be directed from mysite.com/archieve/blah to www.mysite.com/archieve/blah. For some reason, links to the blog posting are displayed as not found

 

It takes about 5 seconds to add the code I gave you to your htaccess file to prevent this issue, but it must be added before the mod_rewrites listed.

 

You're looking at the wrong plugin then, just look at this one: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/enforce-www-preference/ -- that will give you everything you need. His /code/ page has a lot of other good plugins too, but the www-enforcer is what you need to resolve this.

 

Now the msn traffic are redirected as I like. Plugin is pretty good. So one final question: This plugin now force www.mysite.com. So that means, no mix up with google identifying my site as two: mysite.com and www.mysite.com

Thank you.....

 

Yep that's correct. Now whenver someone types in domain.com it will redirect to www.domain.com, same with robots. I use it for all my blogs so that there are never any pagerank discrepencies or anything..

 

Also, does this script take care of www.mysite.com/index.php to www.mysite.com ?

If not, how can I do this?

 

Hi,

There are no links to /index.php in my WordPress blog, except the links to the search results which are /index.php?s=blahblah.

If you do not link to /index.php yourself, as other sites will most probably link to /, there will be no problem.

Jean-Luc

 

Hi folk,

I want non www to www redirection for my one important WordPress blog. I have enabled the Permalink to make URL SEOF(Search Engine Optimization Friendly).

I placed the below code in my .htaccess file which is located on web server root.

But what all I get is "Redirect Loop" error in Firefox.


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com[nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Am i missing anything ?

A little help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Sachin Pethani(Web-Farmer)
www.letsnurture.com

 

@Yardy009
I have tested your .htaccess.

It works on my blog.

You just need to login to your wordpress blog, and change:

Settings - General
WordPress address (URL) : www.mydomain.com
Blog address (URL) : www.mydomain.com

That's all.

 

The code works great for me.