trouble getting www.

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loginname

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Hi

I've registered mydomain.com at hostgater (baby). Now that I'm viewing my site I see that the address is not http://www.mydomain.com, but instead http://mydomain.com?

How do I use the cpanel of HostGator to change it so that it displays http://www.mydomain.com ??

 

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Crooker

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You can change the htaccess file so that http:// get redirected to http//www.

 

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loginname

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are you sure?

When I type in http://www.mydomain.com I get redirected to http://mydomain.com
Won't this create a loop of redirects?

 

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loginname

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I'm new to .htaccess. I tryed this without success:
Redirect http://mydomain.com http://www.mydomain.com

 

thetraveller

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Put this code in your .htaccess file and wait for the dns to properly propagate, it seems that this loop is caused in the first hours after changing dns..

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.yourdomain\.com\/" [R=301,L]

change yourdomain

 

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loginname

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thetraveller said:

Put this code in your .htaccess file and wait for the dns to properly propagate, it seems that this loop is caused in the first hours after changing dns..

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.yourdomain\.com\/" [R=301,L]

change yourdomain

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A did as you suggested, immedately after doing this modifications I get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" when accessing both http://mydomain.com and http://www.mydomain.com.

Is that normal? will that trouble go away when dns is updated?

 

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Was happened the same with me for about 18 hours when i changed the dns of some of my domains to use with 1and1 hosting, they get stuck. I always permanently redirect the non www to www version and when i change the .htaccess it happens this shlt for some time between 3 to 24 hours aprox, depending on the dns propagation, then everything goes to normal

 

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loginname

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thanks, a thank is sent

 

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fixed, in adition I needed some wp settings. I contacted hostgator and a dude there did everyhting for me, it took 5 minutes from I contacted hostgator to the problem was solved and site up and running smoothly