Quote Originally Posted by bumba000 View Post
MC,
I'm honestly not 100% clear on what you're saying here though I greatly appreciate all the time and effort you've put into helping me with this issue. You did however draw my attention to the problem file - the admin config file. OMG I can not believe I missed this...

The very first define in this file - define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://domain.com'); - changed to - define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.domain.com');

Now all is well. Again, thank you so much. Please accept my apologies. I really am not normally quite so dense. I've just sort of taken a couple years off. Cruise control.... pretty much why I'm still living on 1.5.1. Over the years I've installed, upgraded and heavily modified countless websites base on ZC and WP. I really can not believe that I missed this.

Thanks again,
John
Well, in part I was expressing my aggravation with myself. I had asked for information, part of it had been provided to which I requested the additional information which was later provided but I didn't make the connection and continued to try to resolve the issue thinking that what we both discovered was not the problem. :)

We all have our moments and "bad" days. As was taught to me many years ago, while it may be possible to do extraordinary things, one should not forget the basics and should always return to them. And it was when I practiced that concept that it dawned on me that we all missed the admin/includes/configure.php incorrect setting for HTTP_SERVER to support the desired outcome.

BTW, if it wasn't obvious, after making the change above to the admin/includes/configure.php file, you (or any other reader following along) should be able to again place the .htaccess rewrites to force www. as the prefix.

Glad that back on track. Have fun!