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

[tmanran123]

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

Thanks

[HMBeaty]

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

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

[Eric]

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]

Originally Posted by Eric

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]

Thanks guys

can you be more specific about:

"be sure to update the URL in your admincp"

what does this mean?

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by tmanran123

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:

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]

Yay it works

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

[HMBeaty]

No problem

[Max Taxable]

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

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