DNS configuration

[foulquesd]

Hi there,

I got a problem with my DNS configuration, not a big one as my website works. But i'd like to redirect the normal url of my website (that's to say mydomain.com) to the one with www (www.mydomain.com). Unfortunately my knowledge in DNS and server administration is not enough to do that.
So if you have any idea how i could do that, i would be pleased to hear (or read in this case) it.

Thank you for your time.

 

[ThomasWales]

Hello foolguesd,

I would recommend you to do a .htaccess file with the following rewrite rule

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

 

[foulquesd]

Thank you Thomas.
At first I doubted the solution cause I use kind of the same thing to do url rewriting and it doesn't really redirect the user. But it works and that prooves that i got a lot to learn in that domain.

 

[abdi]

and if your website is written in php then this small code can also do the same:

if (!preg_match('/www\..*?/', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) { 
    if(!EMPTY($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) 
        header("location: http://www." . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?" . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); 
    else 
            header("location: http://www." . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); 
}

You just put it ontop of your index file or so ...

 

[ThomasWales]

I'm glad you have sorted your issue out