Tutorial: use .htaccess to forward domain.com to www.domain.com

Place the following .htaccess in your public_html directory.

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

Code (markup):

Ta - Da! All links pointed at domain.com go to www.domain.com

If you would like a better explanation of what this does, check out the actual "Force WWW In URL With .htaccess" tutorial on the Promotion & Marketing Techniques blog.

 

I usually report and go after these type of posts, but since you actually posted the method with your link I don't consider this spam, but it is border line. Thanks for the info, will help some amature webmasters for sure.

 

I try to put the essential info in the post, but not copy and paste the post from my blog so there's no duplicate content. (I hate those kinds of posts too, that claim a tutorial, and just forward you to their site.)

Thanks for the feedback, I hope this helps you and everyone else out!

 

I don't see anything spammy about this thread, why is there a need to report it?

 

i don't think its spammy .. its helpful ! Thanks for sharing !! +ve added

 

Good info, just to remind people that you can't be on a Windows (IIS) server to use this technique.

 

A very basic tutorial, however some people fail to implement even these simple 2 lines

 

You can also do it from your google webmaster account..
its very simple

 

That's something else, and as you can probably figure out - that is only for google.

 

Never do this in Google Webmaster tools period, always use a server side 301