How to add www to your domain name
Before going to the htaccess . You need to answer my question, The question is
Do you think arulraj.net and www.arulraj.net both are different domain name or same ..?
ya. we (humans) know both are points the same web page. But the search engine robots assume this both are different one. As a result duplicate results in the search results. To avoid this problem you need to develop search engine friendly web pages.
Now the topic,
How to add www in front of your domain name ..?
For this you are aware of htaccess file and where it is located.
htaccess - Hypertext Access
The file located in root directory of your domain name .
For example : /home/<username>/public_html/<domain dir name>/.htaccess
That above structure in Bluehost.Now add this line to your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP\_HOST} ^sharedaa\\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sharedaa.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Now anyone type sharedaa.com in browser it is automatically redirect to www.sharedaa.com
How to redirect to index page if the page is not available ..?
One of your page is indexed in search engine. You remove the page, at this time you want to redirect to home page. how to do this.Add the below line to your htaccess file.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
The final .htaccess file will be
# Use PHP5CGI as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
# BEGIN
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sharedaa\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ http://www.sharedaa.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END
How to add www to your wordpress blog ..?
Go to Setting --> General setting page and in the Blog Address text box enter your domain name with www . for example http://www.sharedaa.com
Reference : http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/index.shtml