Redirecting mysite.com to www.mysite.com automatically

Hi,

Let's say I have a website http://widget.com and I have specified in my hosting company's control panel a server alias of http://www.widget.com, so that the site can be accessed via either of those 2 URLs. Is there a way i caan set it so that someone going to http://widget.com/pagename is automatically sent to http://www.widget.com/pagename (the exact same page).

I tried a 301 redirect but it doesn't seem to work:

redirect 301 http://widget.com http://www.widget.com

One of the issues is that I say 10 inbound links to http://widget.com and 20 inbound likes to http://www.widget.com and I'm guessing it might be better for SEO to have all the inbound likes to the exact same domain name.

Thanks in advance.

 

Ok,

so I tried:

redirect 301 / http://www.widgets.com/

and got a "re-direct loop", which makes sense.

 

Got what I wanted by putting in the .htaccess file:

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


wow...I should talk to myself more often.

 

Hehe I'm glad you got it resolved. You can do it this way as well:

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

Code (markup):

Cheers!