domain help

[KevinG]

currently, when I point my browser to "www.mydomain.com" my page is different from when I point my browser to "mydomain.com" without the "www" - it is like the "www" version is not an updated version.

I'm running a blog there and I'm lost as to why this is, but anyway:

How do I make it so that when I point browser to "www.mydomain.com" it pulls up the page at "mydomain.com"

[ditto]

What what webserver are you running? I googled around and found this for Apache, which seems to be what you're talking about.

[KevinG]

im not sure its hosted by yahoo.

[kthdsn]

You need to set up a 301 redirect from www to non-www. You should be able to do this with .htaccess, assuming it's apache webserver. You should place it at the root of your site, and it should look like this:

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

Obviously replace domain.com with your actual domain name.

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by kthdsn

You need to set up a 301 redirect from www to non-www. You should be able to do this with .htaccess, assuming it's apache webserver. You should place it at the root of your site, and it should look like this:

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

Obviously replace domain.com with your actual domain name.

You aren't speaking english to me. I consider myself a moderately advanced user and I don't have any idea what you are talking about.

Can you explain in layman's?

[TechnoGuyRob]

Originally Posted by KevinG

You aren't speaking english to me. I consider myself a moderately advanced user and I don't have any idea what you are talking about.

Can you explain in layman's?

He's talking about creating a file called ".htaccess" in your main directory. However, you shouldn't have to do this. Make sure you have the DNS set to point to both

domain.com
www.domain.com

Like for my domain:

[kthdsn]

Create a file in the same folder as your index page, the file should contain this:

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

change both instances of domain.com to your actual domain name. Save the file as ".htaccess"

I hope this is clearer.

[Lil Chris]

Check you DNS settings first.
A .htaccess file shouldn't be necessary for what your trying to accomplish.

An .htaccess file is mearly "directions" if you will, that your server reads if you want it to perform certain tasks such as password protection, 404 error redirect and others...