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Add on domain question(Help)

by rahulchandra
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I want to have an addon domain to be displayed in the address bar as www.mydomain.com and not as mydomain.com.

all the add on domains i add are getting indexed without the www part too

What should I do?
Rahul
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  • Profile picture of the author jtormey
    Hmmm, I like to have my domains without the www because it's easier to see the domain name. I don't know how to achieve what you want. You could try this old trick
    www.www-mydomain.com if you really want the www for some reason.
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    • Profile picture of the author rahulchandra
      No thats not what I meant I want this:


      Instead I have this:


      Hope its clear now!
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  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    This is a common question. Some people like it one way, some the other.

    By default my control panel sets it up without all the w stuff, and that's the way I like it so I didn't even look into it. Check with your hosting and they should be able to give you simple directions.

    You can also do it with a .htaccess file but that gets a little more complicated.

    best wishes, lloyd
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan Thompson
      What sort of site have you got on the domain? Is it a Wordpress blog?
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      • Profile picture of the author rahulchandra
        Originally Posted by Dan Thompson View Post

        What sort of site have you got on the domain? Is it a Wordpress blog?
        Yeah, few of them are.
        I found a way to do it by editing the htaccess file, is that the same for wordpress based domains?
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        • Profile picture of the author Dan Thompson
          Wordpress will always redirect to the Site URL you've got defined in the database. So if you've set the site URL with the www. then the site will always redirect to www.yoursite.com, and vice versa.

          If you'd like to change this, you can do so from within your WP admin area, in Settings > General > Wordpress Address
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          • Profile picture of the author rahulchandra
            Originally Posted by Dan Thompson View Post

            Wordpress will always redirect to the Site URL you've got defined in the database. So if you've set the site URL with the www. then the site will always redirect to www.yoursite.com, and vice versa.

            If you'd like to change this, you can do so from within your WP admin area, in Settings > General > Wordpress Address
            Thanks, that did it!
            I appreciate all you of taking the time to help me.
            I learned 2 new things today!

            Cheers
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        • Profile picture of the author Terri Tutten
          Originally Posted by rahulchandra View Post

          Yeah, few of them are.
          I found a way to do it by editing the htaccess file, is that the same for wordpress based domains?
          Rahul
          For Wordpress go into the wp-admin backend, look on the lower left side, go to Settings, General, and add the www to your url's, then press Save. It will log you out, and you'll now have the www displayed.

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  • Profile picture of the author zoobie
    you can basically do a 301 redirect and tells search engine to index your www version
    of the website instead of non-www version. I see some of my clients got that issue early on.

    And it is a very common issue that most webmasters got wrong when they first built the
    website,

    To read more about how to create a 301 redirect, simply follow the link below:

    301 Redirect - How to create Redirects
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