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September 10, 2019

How to redirect visitors that specify a non-WWW web address to a WWW web address. 

ATTENTION: If you do not have experience in working with .htaccess files, contact  our support team for assistance to avoid potential harm to your website. 

What you need

  • An existing, enabled .htaccess file for your domain. For instructions, refer to How to create .htaccess files
  • A back-up of your .htaccess file

Method

  1. Open your .htaccess file located in your document root directory, /html.

  2. Copy and paste the code below into the file, but replace <example.com> with your actual domain name without the angled brackets.
    RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^<example.com> RewriteRule ^(.*) $ http://<www.example.com>/$1 [R=301,L]


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Jason Dobry
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