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1. sennomo
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi,
   I have wp installed on http://www.domain.com/wp and have my site address set as http://www.domain.com. I followed a guide and set-up a redirect so users who go to http://www.domain.com go straight to the wp site.

   The problem is, I have password protected my root directory with .htaccess and .htpasswd, and if a user tries to login with http://domain.com (minus the www), the login is thrown back, and the site redirects to http://www.domain.com showing the login screen again.

   I would like it so that wp recognises both http://www.domain.com and http://domain.com as correct site addresses. Is this possible to fix?

   Thanks.

2. ChristiNi
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi sennomo,

   Adding the following to your .htaccess file will force non-www over www. Add this just after the line RewriteEngine On:

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

   Hope this helps!

3. sennomo
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Thanks ChristiNi,
   I've had very little experience with Apache modules, so I've been reading up on the two mentioned here. I also noticed I didn't have the RewriteEngine On: line in my .htaccess, so I googled that and found I might need to add a couple more lines before that too :P

   Options +FollowSymLinks
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.fi
   RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.fi/$1 [R=301,L]

   So, I'm not sure if those other lines were needed, but everything seems to be working now.

   Thanks again :)

4. ChristiNi
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi sennomo,

   Glad to hear you got that sorted out. I thought you already had the RewriteEngine On since you had already set up a redirect. Options +FollowSymLinks isn't always needed explicitly in the .htaccess file. If your redirects work without Options +FollowSymLinks then your server is already setup with those enabled.

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