How do you remove www from your domain? Using Wordpress and/or Webmin?
funnygeezeruk asked:
Is there a dummies guide to removing the www. from the domain? I can’t seem to get it to work for either a new install, or on my existing http://www.eyeonthetigers.co.uk (http://eyeonthetigers.co.uk). In this instance I’m using wordpress - I’d rather all my Wordpress installs were on the domain without the www.
My admin interface is Webmin if that helps, and domain hosted at 123-reg.
Any help appreciated - Google isn’t a lot of help when you search for “no www” :o)
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It’s not wordpress that removes it. It’s your host that has to have a redirect from the www version to the one without the
Wordpress is just a script for content management.
Presuming your domain is eyeonthetigers.co.uk, go into your DNS settings for the domain on 123-reg, and you should find things called “A records”. There should be one called “www” with the IP address of 88.198.25.116. If there is, try to add another A record (providing there isn’t one already) called * (asterisk). Give that the IP address of 88.198.25.116. This should work.
first register a user with google and use google webmaster tools insert a validation code on it and tell google which URL you prefer.
second you should not care much about that www or none thing once you use google webmaster tools.
you could just create a htaccess file;)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [R=301,L]