Redirecting domain.com to www.domain.com?

[james]

Hi,

Currently our domains are accessible via http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com.

Is there any way to have it so http://domain.com redirects to http://www.domain.com instead?

Cheers,

James

[Jonathan]

I do not believe you can; I mean you could
make like index.php go to main.php and make sure
it has the 'www' part in the URL....

But basicly you can't make http:// go to
http://www. because each one it'd access the index file,
and if it did that, assuming you used index as the forward,
it'd just keep throwing ppl into a loop of redirection....

[james]

Interesting... Anyone else know how it could be done?

What about ensuring that the user is using a https:// connection?

ie. http://www.domain.com/order goes to https://www.domain.com/order

James

[Jonathan]

for the https:// part, why not have all the
links on your site start with https:// ?

[james]

Yes that would work, i'm just curious as to whether it's possible another way, to ensure a https connection.

[Jonathan]

very possibly there may be, but I'm
at a lost as to how to make sure...

I'm not sure, but possibly a PHP script?
That checks if the user is requesting https://domain.com
and if not (normal http://), then redirect to the https:// ?

Again, not sure if that can be done...

[sdjl]

The following will check to see if www. is being used. If not, it can be used to force the user to a www. URL:

<?php

$server = getenv("HTTP_HOST");

if (!ereg("^www.", $server)) {
    // Assume no www. has been entered
    Header ("Location: http://www.".$server."/");
    Exit;
    
}

?>

If i understand SSL correctly, you should have a seperate location to upload files that are going to be used on your secure site.
You could use PHP again to look at the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] var to see that the location is correct, if its not, force the user to the https:// URL.

David

[-Oz-]

David, i added that to the FAQ, tell me if you mind

http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?p=1656#post1656

[sdjl]

Nope, that's fine by me Oz

David

[ndns]

You can also use mod_rewrite in your .htaccess file. Put it inside your public_html directory in order for the changes to effect all files/directories.

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

Replace domain and .com as necessary.

[-Oz-]

I have updated the FAQ accordingly http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?p=1656