By jezpeters
Hi.
My site is currently working fine at the url ‘mysite.com’. I’d obviously like ''www.mysite.com to get re-directed to ‘mysite.com’ though.
I’ve tried the various suggestions in these threads and the documentation, and unfortunately none seem to work for me - I just get an error from my internet provider when I try to view the www version, and a time-out when I try to ping it. I would be extremely grateful if you could let me me exactly what I have to do to get this working.
This is my current set up:
A Record:
Hostname: @
IP Adress: my.ip.address
CNAME:
Hostname(mysite): www
Hostname: @ (also tried mysite.com)
and in my htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] </IfModule>
Many thanks.
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@gokay.mustafa: To enable mod_rewrite, run the following commands as root: <br><pre>sudo a2enmod rewrite <br>sudo service apache2 restart</pre>
You have to enable mod_rewrite (a2enmod rewrite) and add RewriteEngine On before the RewriteCond’s.
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