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tmanran123

09-11-2011 05:51 AM

How can I prevent the WWW version of my website from being displayed?

Thanks for reading!

I'd simply like to prevent the www version of my vbulletin install from being accessible.

e.g. when a person goes to the www version of my forum URL, i'd like to have the www disappear and go to the non www version.

I guess I'd use the htaccess file??? Or do i use canonical tags?

Please help :confused:

Thanks

HMBeaty

09-11-2011 11:07 PM

Add this to your .htaccess in your sites root directory. If you don't have one there, create one and add this to it:

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Eric	09-12-2011 01:22 AM

Also, be sure to update the URL in your admincp before making the change, or you may not be able to login (depending on cookie settings)

HMBeaty

09-12-2011 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 2244730)

Also, be sure to update the URL in your admincp before making the change, or you may not be able to login (depending on cookie settings)

Yes, very true! Thank you :)

tmanran123

09-12-2011 02:01 AM

Thanks guys

can you be more specific about:

"be sure to update the URL in your admincp"

what does this mean?

HMBeaty

09-12-2011 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tmanran123 (Post 2244741)

Thanks guys

can you be more specific about:

"be sure to update the URL in your admincp"

what does this mean?

Sure. When you navigate to:

Code:

AdminCP => Settings => Options => Site Name / URL / Contact Details => Forum URL

AdminCP => Settings => Options => Site Name / URL / Contact Details => Homepage URL

Make sure both of those settings do not contain the www.

For example, if you currently have http://www.yoursite.com, you need to change that to http://yoursite.com :)

tmanran123

09-12-2011 03:47 AM

Yay it works

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://happy-pictures.net/wp-content...appy-Cat11.jpg

HMBeaty

09-12-2011 03:55 AM

No problem :)

Max Taxable

09-12-2011 11:46 AM

Just curious, but how is this different from the following?

Code:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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