Domain Name with no 'www'

Ask your web host to fix this

 

My host is dreamhost, and depending on whose yours is you should be able to go into options and change what it reverts to automatically.

 

I can't say for sure, dreamhost has its own custom backend I think. I just did a quick search and google and couldn't find anything either, sorry.

 

I was just wondering the Exact same thing! Does anyone know??

 

Point your hardwaretechreview.com to your IP on ur DNS excatly the way you do for www .. In this case www part will be empty ... If you use IIS web server.. configurate it for hardwaretechreview.com also...

That is it.........

 

almost all sites you do not need to type in www. as it is faster to type it without worrying about it.

 

if its cpanel you need not worry about it. As otherwise just create a DNS A record for your domain for www.

 

Actually, You just need to set up a .htaccess (or edit what is there) so it reads:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.your_domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.your_domain.com/$1 [R=301]

Code (markup):

That will force it to always go to www.your_domain.com even if someone get's there by going to your_domain.com

if you already have a .htaccess:

• Back it up
• you only need "rewriteEngine on" once in the file.
• If you have another "RewriteCond" line that includes HTTP_HOST that is probably what is causing the site to go to the non www address. and you will need to reconcile the two.

-Jason

 

Hi dynashox,
from you wordpress admin panel its very easy to change your URL from http://hardwaretechreview.com to http://www.hardwaretechreview.com Go to admin panel > General Options
In this 2 fields Change (http://hardwaretechreview.com to http://www.hardwaretechreview.com)

WordPress address (URL): [url]http://www.hardwaretechreview.com[/url]
Blog address (URL):  [url]http://www.hardwaretechreview.com[/url]

Code (markup):

It works for me Good Luck.
Dont forget to post Result. Thanks

 

The problem here will be that the www version will also work and you will get a lot of duplicate content in the search engines. Thats why you need to also put the htaccess redirection method mentioned below:

 

that would be the perfect option, no other script can replace that.

 

Ha, I never even knew this was an issue, posibility. Learn something new every day