How to specify www vs. non-www - with Pretty URLS - on new install?

[WebGirl]

Not sure if this is the right location for this question.

Installation: CMSMS 1.5.4
PHP: Ver 5

My client wants to only see 'www' in her site's URL, which is normally achieved by amending the htaccess file

I've been advised to add this to the .htaccess:

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

--
Of course I replaced 'website-name.com' - with the real live website name

I had already set up Pretty URLs, so once I added this, the Pretty URLs stopped working, and I could no longer login to the Admin.

Does anyone know of the best way to implement (1) Pretty URLS, with (2) 'www' - either using .htaccess or some other way?

I really have no knowledge of how to write the .htaccess apart from using it for Pretty URLs.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Many thanks

[Jean le Chauve]

Hi,

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

config.php :
$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;  //optional
$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.domaine.com';

[WebGirl]

Merci Jean!

OK just so I've got this right - this goes in .htaccess:

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

and this goes in config.php :

$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;  //optional
$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.domaine.com';

Fantastique! I'll give that a shot!

Thanks a million!

[viebig]

or you can just change

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$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.domaine.com';

to

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$config['root_url'] = 'http://domaine.com';

no htaccess changes

Regards

[Jean le Chauve]

Hi,

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

Edit : this 2 lines make a second redirection => bad

[WebGirl]

Thank you everyone for trying to help.

I cannot solve this.

I have spent days tweaking the htaccess and config.php files, I've checked the templates, and still this issue cannot be resolved. I have paid someone else to investigate it (a cmsms person).

This client website had the 'www' working AND Pretty URLS in version 1.1, but now we've upgraded to 1.5.4 nothing can put this back the way it was.

The client's request is simply that if someone types their domain name without the 'www', that it should always resolve to the 'www' version. This is for Google search engine, webmaster and analytics - so there is no 'duplicate content' on a non-www version of the site.

Unfortunately I have had to tell the client that she cannot have both www and pretty urls in CMSMS 1.5.4.

[nuno]

Like viebig  said  put this in your config.php

$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.domaine.com';

http://www.domaine.com  is your domain ofcourse

Done

[WebGirl]

Hi Nuno,

Yes I have done that.

Thanks