htaccess file Help

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>



# END WordPress

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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yalokin said:

From WordPress 2.4+ (maybe) theres a feature called "canonical URLs" which will 301 redirect www to non-www or vice-versa automatically for you. You don't need to change the htaccess file.

Wordpress is taking care of this, so keep the original wp htaccess file:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>



# END WordPress

And just change the WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) from ADMIN > Settings > General to start with www.

For example http://mydomain.com becomes http://www.mydomain.com

Just to note that when making such changes on indexed site you may want to take care of some additional details one of which is telling WMT which version to prefer when crawling to avoid duplicate content.

Hope that helps.

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