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How can I use .htaccess to 301 redirect all root domain traffic to www sub-domain?

Posted on April 11, 2014

I am running the beta Wordpress Ubuntu 13.04 installation…

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Create a new virtualhost as follows and restart apache: <br><pre><VirtualHost *:80> <br> ServerName domain.com <br> Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/ <br></VirtualHost></pre>

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