Looking for .htaccess file code ?

Hi,

I am very much aware of the benefits of redirecting non-www url's to www url's. Now, meta refresh is something that doesn't considered to be a good practice as far as permanent redirect is concerned.

Another alternative is .htaccess file. At the moment I thoroughly unaware of what are the contents of a .htaccess file. Guys please let me know how should I create .htaccess file from scratch ?

Looking for positive replies.

Thanks in Advance

 

You can use the Google webmaster tool to do that.

 

Great,could you please elaborate a bit ?

 

You can use FTP manager

 

The file is called .htaccess (dot on the front) and it goes in the html root directory. Use the following 3 lines:

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

Changing yourhost.com to your domain name

 

thank you phpmatt that's what i was looking for...i will let you know after implementing this code.

 

Matt check out the following code -
This is the exact code I put in the .htaccess file..that's my websit - http://mosymadugba(dot)com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mosymadugba.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mosymadugba.com/$1 [L,R=301]

still the non www url is not rediecting towards www url's

 

This is wrong, and thats why it doesnt work.

Test it here for example:
http://havocarcade.com

try this at the top of .htaccess

note- create/place the .htaccess file in your public_html directory

like so:
/public_html/.htaccess/

 

take out [NC] and try that, works fine for me.

 

replace
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mosymadugba.com [NC]
to
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mosymadugba.com
it should be working now

 

Wouldnt you have to remove the ^.

 

[NC] means "Case Insensitive", and this is how you set it up in .htaccess ( i am using it on my site myself)
301 tells the browsers and search engines that this is a permanent redirect
L means last rule
^ Start of line anchor

For those of you who need more info on URL rewrites see:
http://www.widexl.com/tutorials/mod_rewrite.html

This is what he needs to add to .htaccess in /public_html/.htaccess

 

I believe [NC] was used in older versions of apache
I tried both versions in my htaccess ( iam using apache2) and it works only without [NC]

 

Hmm i run apache version 2.2.15

It works fine for me.