How to redirect Magento and Joolma! to open through www?
For SEO and usability purposes you may want to redirect your visitors to open your site only through
http://www.exampledomain.com.
Some applications, including Joomla, require additional modifications to make this redirection work properly.
First, you should open the .
htaccess file in the root folder. In it locate the "
RewriteEngine on" line and right after it add the following lines:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^exampledomain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.exampledomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Once you do this, save the .
htaccess file and log in to the administrative end of Magento.
Then go to the
System > Configuration menu and from the left panel click the "
Web" button.
Unfold the "
Unsecured" set of options and change the "
Base URL" option from
http://exampledomain.com to
http://www.exampledomain.com.
Save the changes and your Magento website will be running with
www.exampledomain.com only!