Using mod rewrite to force people to use "www" in the url

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Originally Posted by hammerhead24

Awesome, it worked!
:high five:

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One more quick question. Our hosting provider gives us access via "/~name/" appended to the end of the url for some reason.
So when we go to www.mysite.com/~name/ the root directory loads and www.mysite.com/~name/forums/ loads the forum directory.

I tried writing a condition that would detect the "~name" and remove it from the url but apparently the server treats www.mysite.com/~name/ as www.mysite.com and .htaccess isn't able to detect the "~name" in it. (unless I wrote the condition wrong)

Any idea how this can be fixed?
The reason THIS is an issue, is because some of the users still use the url with "~name" in it since that is what they bookmarked.

Thats a server side setting and you'll have to tell your hosting company to either disable it or inform your users to update your bookmarks. the /~name is generally used when the domain is still propagating over to the new DNS, and shouldn't be used afterwards.