ssl certificate issue?? www. vs not?

[jrod31]

i purchase a SSL certificate for my website...
but every time you go to my account link an error comes out.... the reason is because the certificate is for www.website.com and my complete site is http://website dot com.... someone told me that i can force all my visitors to use a www. with a .htaccess files.


please help..

[stevesh]

Edit your configure.php files to add the www. to the paths.

[jrod31]

Where exactly do i put that?

[BadDog1369]

You can add this to your root htaccess file:
################Force www pages
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainname.com [nocase]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yourdomainname.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]
##############################