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It kills me to ask this, but how can I add the “www” to my urls by default. There is a conflict with the client’s internal system, and it’s not allowing them to access their own website unless it contains “www” in the url. It is perfectly fine everywhere else, but they are running a windows biz server config in the building and it’s preventing them from finding the site. I DO NOT know the all of the gritty details of the server issues here.

I’m hoping someone can help. I looked around a bit and found this thread, http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/212642/ which leads me to believe I can make this happen rather easily, but it doesn’t include any instruction.

Thanks in advance! I truly appreciate the help.

Here is the site if you need it: http://centralcounties.org

I think I’ve resolved this. Didn’t realize it was as simple as adding www to the URL’s in “General Config”.

Lol. Sorry for being an EE rookie.

Thanks!

p.s. - If I’m totally wrong (not surprising) please let me know the proper way to handle this. Thanks!

In case anyone else needs this down the road… I also needed to change the paths in the file manager to get my images back.

You can force this in htaccess with:

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

There are other variations if this doesn’t work for you.

http://www.htaccessbasics.com/force-www-nonwww-domain/

Hey c.nico,

I am glad that you found your way to the solution.

You found the proper paths to update.

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,