December 30, 2018 1:30 PM PST
How to redirect www URLs to non-www?
(THE LINKS ARE NOT CONNECTED TO ANY REAL WEBSITES)
You can redirect all of the requests for
www.your-website.com domain to
your-website.comBy modifying your website's .htaccess file. You have to add the following lines in the
beginning of the file so that the redirection is properly set up:
You can copy & paste this test just change the
www.your-website.com and
your-website.com to you websites name.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^
www.your-website.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$
http://your-website.com/$1 [L,R=301]
This is what it looks like on my beast-usa.com website:
You can edit the .htaccess file using the File Manager in cPanel or download and edit using a FTP like FileZilla or Ipswitch.
If you download and edit you can use any text editor like notepad, notepad++...
It's a good idea to keep the original file just in case so save a copy of the original.
Download and edit and before you upload the edited version rename the original something like this htaccess-12-30-2018.
From now on, when someone accesses your website
http://www.your-website.com that visitor will be redirected to
http://your-website.com automatically.
Any questions as always just ask.
This post was edited by beastusa at December 31, 2018 12:45 AM PST