Www. & Non-www versions problem
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I currently have both WWW and non-WWW versions of my site live on the web, and I want to be able to have all non-WWW to point to WWW.http://nile-cruises-4u.co.ukhttp://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk
I want just the WWW version of the site live.I'm wondering the best way to resolve this?Is it normally dealt with in the .htaccess file and I think, looks like this but I'm not sure:<code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [http://www.](http://www.)%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code>
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Hi Colin,
Login to wordpress admin panel then go to setting -> General and in that change put
WordPress Address (URL) = http://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/ and
Site Address (URL) = http://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/
Hope this helps you...
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Thanks to Sanket I've successfully managed to have the site show only www. and not the non-www. versions.
However I have a blog on the site and that still shows the non-www. version, for example:
http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/makadi-palace-hotel-makadi-bay/
I wonder if anyone has come upon the same problem and what the solution might be?
Thanks,
Colin
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Thank you very much Sanket.
That's so kind of you.
Colin
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Hi Nile,I have made code for you... please this code in .httaccess fileRewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.cfm?id=$1 [L]Rewritecond %{http_host} ^nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/$ [nc]rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc] RewriteRule ^index.cfm http://www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/ [L,R=301]
Hope this help you out.....
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