I need your help real quick warriors...HTML question

[Josef_Benjamin]

I have a site I'm getting ready to promote full force, and I can't
for the life of me get my website to come up without the "www." or "http://www." part of the website addresse.

Basically, I want to be able to type in my website like this mywebsite.com without the rest of the stuff in front.

I did it once months ago and i forgot how to do it, I'm sure it's a simple solution to fix, but I figure I'd ask here instead of wasting time tryin2 figure it out myself.

[Josef_Benjamin]

ok, dang...no big deal. you guys are awesome. man i love this forum.

support desk right infront of my face and didn't think 2 use it .

[Josef_Benjamin]

i got nothing with support...I'm getting fustrated now.

my .htcaccess file is fine, but I think there was something i need to do to them to get my domain the way i want it

[Istvan Horvath]

You can have your domain name i.e. "example.com" without "www" but a normal URL (URI) always has to have the http:// part - that is the one telling the browser what kind of protocol to be used (HyperText Transfer Protocol= http).

As it was said: use the .htaccess file to redirect all the

http://www.example.com

requests to

http://example.com

- and also let the big G know (using the Webmaster tools) which one is the preferred variant. Otherwise it will index them as two different variants of the same site because - technically speaking - the "www" part is a subdomain of the example.com and G. indexes the subdomains as different sites.

2 lines in .htaccess:

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

[RhondaGiarraffa]

When you upload, make sure it is in the public_html file.

If you are hosting more than one domain on your hosting account you will need to make certain it goes to the right file.

If you are up loading using FTP, you will go to you public_html and then make sure you find the domain name you are attaching the file to.

Also, Make sure you change the name to index.html if it is not already named that way.

Tell me how you up loaded. I can help.

PM me if you want.

Rhonda G.

[RhondaGiarraffa]

You can also go in to your cpanel and upload there... Just get in to you cpanel, go to files, then go to your domain, you will see at the top an icon were you can up load that way as well.

Rhonda

[Istvan Horvath]

Rhonda, your posts are completely irrelevant to the OP. Go back and read the question again. It is not about where to upload - it is about domain name with and/or without www. Sorry.

[makeittoday]

pension guy. thanks for your post. i learned from it

anyway,
Josef please let us know the real solution

that works for this problem when you get it solved.

i'm also trying to see if there's a solution here but

once u get anyone that worked, pls post it here.