Adding www prefix to the front of my domain

Dokinator · 26 Aug 2014 at 20:08

I have recently created a photography website http://3xposure.co.uk but would like the address to have the www prefix so it looks more like

http://www.3xposure.co.uk

.

The website is running on wordpress and if I change the web address URL under settings>General it breaks the website so have been going back into the php database to restore this option.

Can anyone please advise. Thankyou

celliott · 26 Aug 2014 at 21:10

Do you have a .htaccess file in your public_html folder with mod_rewrite rules?

It will begin with ReWritecondiiton or something like that.

To change your install from http:// to http://www. you will need to edit the entry in the wordpress database and the rules in this file

touch · 26 Aug 2014 at 21:10

edit: i'm wrong

Dokinator · 26 Aug 2014 at 21:26

okay, anyone else have a clue? cheers anyway touch

ilcp · 26 Aug 2014 at 22:02

who is your webhost? Most usually might have this ability built in. go to the section where you can modify your domain (most likely, but could be elsewhere)

The thing is usually if you type in a domain, with or without www, it should take you to the right place.

try here: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...eid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=redirect to www version

Dokinator · 26 Aug 2014 at 22:07

Ive had a look on the web for the whole of this evening and cannot seem to find the right answer. I did find earlier that i have the option to change from domain.co.uk to www.domain.co.uk in the domain settings but it then throws the wordpress site out

celliott · 26 Aug 2014 at 22:16

Did you follow what i said in my reply, what was the outcome? I host in the region of 500 wordpress installs, this is an easy fix.

Number_25 · 27 Aug 2014 at 01:31

I managed to get the same results by just enabling a www subdomain. Lazy, I know - but who cares?

mtalk · 27 Aug 2014 at 07:35

Best way is to change from wpadmin section of wordpress or edit your .htaccess rule which should give you the result.

below is he rule :

# Redirect non-www to www:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

cats_five · 27 Aug 2014 at 08:39

With mine it's down to the DNS setup which I think is what you've done.

@ A ip-address
www A ip-address