Force www. (without .htaccess)

[1Unreal]

This mod will redirect users who do not have the www. subdomain to one that does. This helps with SEO as it stops duplicate content also fixes some logging in issues. Another upside is that this is done with pure PHP so you don't need to mess about with .htaccess.

There are no options, just upload it and it will redirect the users straight away.

Please post any issues and don't forget to click install!

[HMBeaty]

Nice thanks. Installed!

[Mohsen71]

thanks. Installed!

[Eruantien]

Sweet!

[JVCode]

Thank you, Installed.

[yahoooh]

i think it will affect any one use subdomains for vba links ,vbgallery and others

[al-Rsha.com]

I have a question that is ,
dose the mod effect sub domains
and the parked domains ;)

[legion!]

i installed this and i cannot log into my admin panel now because of it...it jus redirects me to my forumhome....

[HMBeaty]

i installed this and i cannot log into my admin panel now because of it...it jus redirects me to my forumhome....
Try disabling your modifications by placing this UNDER <?php in your includes/config.php file
define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);
Then go to your AdminCP and uninstall

[legion!]

i jus did that...and it didnt work...all my hacks and stuff are still workin...and i cant log into the CPanel

[New Joe]

Anyone else have this same problem?

[legion!]

im still locked out of my panel...is there anyway to reverse this

[choccyclaire]

Try accessing your site via your ip?

[Hostboard]

Most likely this is cached in your browser. You can try:

1. Clear browsers cache and cookies
2. Try another browser
3. Force a refresh (F5, ctrl r, etc.)

[Brandon Sheley]

I would suggest you also change this in google webmaster tools (www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) as well :)

[1Unreal]

i think it will affect any one use subdomains for vba links ,vbgallery and others

Yes it will.

I have a question that is ,
dose the mod effect sub domains
and the parked domains ;)

It will effect sub-domains as www is a sub domain.

i jus did that...and it didnt work...all my hacks and stuff are still workin...and i cant log into the CPanel

Try going to http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel instead of http://cpanel.yoursite.com/

[Chuta]

Good Bye Login Problems!!

[ag24]

nice work,tnx
installed...

[ravi_9793]

Thanks, working. :)

[Manoel J?nior]

Very, very, very Thanks!!!!

Great my bro!

[MissKalunji]

Seems to be working perfectly!

Thank you!

[hpidriver]

Just to make sure, i upload this as a product???

[MissKalunji]

Yep as a product

[cosy]

dont working for me

vboptimize can be a problem ?

[MissKalunji]

it could be

[EagleNick]

How does this mod work, exactly? People have been asking in this thread on another site: http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/vbulletin/opinions-mod-search-engine-optimization-3471/

[MoMan]

FYI if I try to access my site via IP, the www. is still appended, thus making the site inaccessible. Might want to make a conditional to get around that somehow!

[MoMan]

Fixed this by wrapping the entire plugin code in this conditional:

$pos = strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],'*your website IP address here*');
if ($pos === false)
{*plugin code here* }
else
{}

[bigcurt]

^^ I concur with what he said, just checked it on my site as well.

[teuor]

nice work, thanks

[Entonadoscl]

thanks ;)

[nonspin]

.. just for ticks and for those who prefer the proper .htaccess method

# Redirect adding leading www.to domain or any subdomain if missing
# RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Remove "#" from RewriteEngine On if not present

[Quantnet]

How does this mod work without the .htaccess modification? I'm curious.

[1Unreal]

How does this mod work without the .htaccess modification? I'm curious.

Well using PHP you can get the current URL of a page and you can redirect. Simple :)

[AdamCap]

I was a little worried about installing this after reading some of the comments with troubles...but it works perfectly for me! I couldn't get my .htaccess to redirect, so this is awesome. :)

I think my .htaccess redirect problems might have have something to do with wordpress. It's installed in my root and automatically redirects all wordpress pages to www, so for some reasons adding the code to redirect in htaccess wouldn't redirect vBulletin which is in a folder off the root.

[EliasAlucard]

This plugin is not working properly.

[KyleWhitey]

installed, awesome dude thx

[CORSO]

work with 4.0.2?

[MrPHD]

This mod run on vbulletin 4.0.x version.

[ravenfaust]

not working for me, stays without www.

[Manoel J?nior]

Working in vbb4.x

Great!!

[bluecat]

works on 4.0.2 thanks :D

[kpmedia]

This works even when my .htaccess would not. Excellent!
Just what I was needing. Thanks.

[Cybershaolin]

Fixed this by wrapping the entire plugin code in this conditional:

$pos = strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],'*your website IP address here*');
if ($pos === false)
{*plugin code here* }
else
{}


I'm not quite sure where or how to integrate this with the product posted. Would it be possible to write down the whole product code with this modification please?

[EWGF]

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Every single .htaccess that I've tried, couldn't redirect all the following situations:

mysite.com/forum
->
www.mysite.com/forum

mysite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=1
->
www.mysite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=1

mysite.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12345&page=6
->
www.mysite.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12345&page=6

[erel34]

thanks. Installed!

[Guest20210129]

thanks ;)

[Alfa1]

This doesn't work with https. It forces http as well. How can I solve this?

[EWGF]

Edit the plugin by adding a "s" after every "http" in the plugin

[Aexo]

Working perfectly in vbulletin 4!!!

[Mark_Zuckerberg]

Thanks a lot mate this solved my invalid redirect url problem thank you so much :)

[final kaoss]

Works great with vb 4, thanks!

Needed this for cloudflare which only does rewrites on www urls.

[Mark_Zuckerberg]

Its not working on vb 4.2 any suggestions
my domain opens at
www.mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com/forum.php
www.mydomain.com/forum.php?

i want it to be www.mydomain.com in all manners.

[Guest20210129]

Not working in vB 4.2.0 :(

Please, this plugin is a must, suppor it! :)

[Max Taxable]

Pardon my ignorance, but why is www preferred and not just the http?

[bbgun1]

Hi - Is this no longer supported? Doesn't seem to work with vB5 unfortunately.

Anyone else have any luck getting it going on vB5?