How to redirect from domain.com to www.domain.com

[silis25]

Hi,

I need your assistance in redirecting my domain properly.

Problem: My domain 'letthemstare.com' doesn't redirect to 'www.letthemstare.com'

'www.letthemstare.com' - Works
'letthemstare.com' - Fails

1. My site is located within a folder named fashionblog.
2. I modified my httpd.conf through "Pre VirtualHost Include" as follows:

<Directory /home/letthems/public_html>

# Turn on rewrites.
RewriteEngine on

# Only apply to URLs on this domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?letthemstare.com$

# Only apply to URLs that aren't already under folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/fashionblog/

# Don't apply to URLs that go to existing files or folders.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all those to insert /fashionblog.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /fashionblog/$1

# Also redirect the root folder.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?letthemstare.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ fashionblog/index.php [L]

</Directory>

The above redirects most of the things properly but letthemstare.com redirection still doesn't work.

4. Also, I don't understand why

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^letthemstare.com$

doesn't redirect my domain (I've tried that)

I will appreciate your help here.

Kfir Silis

 

[cPanelTristan]

Have you tried simply putting in an .htaccess file in /home/username/public_html/.htaccess location with these rewrites? There's no real reason to use an include for these. You might try the following instead for that redirection:

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

 

[AunRaza]

More simple way will be to add this redirect via cpanel's Redirect menu

 

[mambovince]

More simple way will be to add this redirect via cpanel's Redirect menu

I am surprised cPanel does not yet include a simple option to do this yet.

BTW
is there any difference on how to write that last rule:
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.letthemstare.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I was previously told this way
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.letthemstare.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Thanks

 

[Lyttek]

I'm going to ask a silly question here: is 'letthemstare.com' supposed to point to the exact same content as 'www.letthemstare.com'?? If so, and your DNS is setup correctly, all you need is a simple redirect configured in the cpanel redirect section...

Edit: it looks like it's working when I visit the site, assuming I'm supposed to see some rather hottish pics ;-)