Mini Mods - Force www. (without .htaccess)

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!

[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]

Originally Posted by Quantnet

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.