wordpress and www./non www. question

[theodotcom]

Is there anyway in wordpress to redirect if someone enters the domain without the www. to the www. domain.

Using an iis6 server with plesk and it cant seem to be done in plesk, so was wondering if there was another way.

the wordpress site doesnt display properly without the www. so need it to redirect.

Thanks for any advice.

[Zoots]

Does this help?
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=79020

Or this?

http://www.rationalplanet.com/2009/0...plesk-hosting/

[miffy]

You want to have have a look into Cannonicalisation which is what this is called.

You basically need to have a 301 redirect from a non www. to a www.

Im not sure how to do it on a iis server but a quick check found these instructions.

Under your parent domain in iis, create another website with example.com as the host name and then right click on it> select properties> Select Directory> A redirection to a URL> enter http://www.example.com$S$Q> Select "Exact URL">Select "A permanent redirection"> click ok
You're done!

[theodotcom]

Thanks for the help

Zoots neither of the 2 worked but thanks anyway
miffy instructions seem a bit confusing because in plesk/on server the directory is without the www.

[Zoots]

I saw something along those lines mentioned when I was Googling. If I remember right, I googled 'redirect in Plesk for non www' and there were quite a few results.

How about this?

[theodotcom]

Seen and tried that site, searched through so many sites in google however didnt find an answer, my hosting company tried and failed, and cant help anymore as they dont really offer support other than hardware issues. They tried the .htaccess file and also advised that plesk takes control so its unlikely to work with .htaccess.
I'm at a total loss with this, why is it something thats so difficult.

[miffy]

have you tired this out in your htacess


#non-www to www start
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.YOURSITEHERE.com/ $
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.YOURSITEHERE.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#non-www to www end

[miffy]

If you cant do it in the htaccess maybe change the way your linking to your style sheet?

by default in the header.php file it is in there as

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />

maybe if you change it to, this might work?

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="http://www.yoursite.com" /> 

[theodotcom]

I tried adding a .htaccess file in several ways but it didnt work, I couldnt find a .htaccess file anywhere so had to create it. From what I read I put it in the root directory and that should be it?

Havent tried changing the header.php, will try that in a bit. Thanks again

[miffy]

How did you get on?

[theodotcom]

Called my hosting company again and managed to get through to someone with a brain, he advised that the .htaccess is more for linux systems as plesk tends to override it, however there is a way to do it because a lot of customers need it done especially when they use ssl certificates.
He sent me a guide to do it through iis manager, which worked fine.