Redirect www.[name].com domain to [name].com domain

[open4biz]

When I set up my domains in Plesk, I set them up so they did not need the www in front of the domain name (i.e. www.mydomain.com).

Now I would like to make it idiot proof and send the user that mistakenly types www to the www-less domain name. Would you do that with the DNS setup section of the domain control panel?

I set up cname records for all three of my domains (www.blah.com automatically goes to blah.com)... but the third doesn't seem to be working. Which got me to thinking, did I do it correctly? Is that the technically correct way? Or should I use a redirect script?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Amin Taheri]

you can do that with mod_rewrite - check into that.

 

[open4biz]

I'm trying to use this page to do it:

http://www.stevenhargrove.com/redirect-web-pages/
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-to-setup-a-301-redirect/

...but I'm not having any luck.

I can redirect the visitor from www.mydomain.com to mydomain.com... but the address bar in the browser does not update/change. And all the links reconcile to www.mydomain.com. What the heck?

Any ideas?

What about this:

http://kb.swsoft.com/article_41_894_en.html

 

[64bithost.com]

.htaccess file

Try using an .htaccess file using the following paramaraters.


# permanently redirect from www domain to non-www domain
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.INSERTDOMAINNAMEHERE\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://INSERTDOMAINNAMEHERE.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# redirect a specific file via 301
redirect 301 /INSERT_URL_HERE.html http://INSERTDOMAINNAMEHERE.COM

#save this file as .htacess
#in your httpdocs file it should then
#redirect to the domain of your choice.

-Chris

 

[open4biz]

Thanks :O)

 

[JamieRW]

Try using an .htaccess file using the following paramaraters.


# permanently redirect from www domain to non-www domain
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.INSERTDOMAINNAMEHERE\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://INSERTDOMAINNAMEHERE.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# redirect a specific file via 301
redirect 301 /INSERT_URL_HERE.html http://INSERTDOMAINNAMEHERE.COM

#save this file as .htacess
#in your httpdocs file it should then
#redirect to the domain of your choice.

-Chris

Hi 64bithost.com, I am struggling to get this to work. I have tried various methods ref. :http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=88372

Are you able to offer any suggestions?

DM.