Urgent .htaccess help

[Jamie101]

Ok, at the moment my site is just http://mysite.co.uk, but i want it to be http://www.mysite.co.uk, tried doing this by changing the .htaccess file but it tries to go to www. - doesn't load though!

Here's what I have now:


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress




What should it be to get it working the way I want it?

 

[OhNoNotHim]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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

 

[Jamie101]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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

So this should do it: EDIT - It doesn't, same problem. Tries to connect to www. but it doesn't.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite.co.uk
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

 

[eddieb]

Should there be a full stop here?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite.co.uk

 

[StudioVision]

This is what I have in my sites:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

Hope it helps!

Craig

 

[matmat is verified member.]

Your original .htaccess is correct.

Wordpress will default to the way you have the url set up in the settings.

Goto General Settings and make sure you have "http://www." in Wordpress Address and Site Address.

 

[Jamie101]

Your original .htaccess is correct.

Wordpress will default to the way you have the url set up in the settings.

Goto General Settings and make sure you have "http://www." in Wordpress Address and Site Address.

I'm an idiot, lol. I read that somewhere but forgot about it, cheers!

Now I've just got to figure out how to change my sitemap, it still has http:// rather than http://www. , even uninstalled the plugin (google's XML sitemap or something) and reinstalled but it's still the same.

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Use the google sitemap plugin and click the option to rebuild the sitemap

 

[Jamie101]

Use the google sitemap plugin and click the option to rebuild the sitemap

Didn't work originally but tried again and now it did

Happy now.

Thanks everyone.