Domain not working with WWW in front

lazlow

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Hi, I have this problem where my domain doesn't redirect to my website when I type in www.mysite.com but it works fine when I type in mysite.com in browser.

What is causing this? Any quick solution to fix this?

 

Knoxgates

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I think you need to create a DNS entry of www pointing towards your IP.

 

lazlow

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Knoxgates could you please clarify a bit more.
I once had this similar problem, asked my host support to fix it, they did fix it.. they said it had something to do with database..

 

cypionate

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You need to create an A record for www. If it's on a dedicated server you can do this yourself. Otherwise if it's shared hosting just ask your provider to do it.

Cyp

 

Knoxgates

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@lazlow:

If you are hosting your site which offers cpanel then you have to contact your host support team. They just need to create a DNS entry of www pointing towards your domain ip.

Right now you only have an entry of http pointing towards you domain.

 

lazlow

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Sent a support ticket to my host asking to do that.
Thanks dudes!

 

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marko79

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do it with .htaccess .

 

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Mesach

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Here is the code to do it using your .htaccess file

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^your-domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)         http://your-domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]