zen-cart.com -> www.zen-cart.com -- How to do?

[qhome]

This one is aimed at a simple question to the zen-cart webmaster.

On my old site, I was using a shared reseller that had *.sharedssl.com. This was nice because no matter what subdomain, it would kick in ssl without giving the prompt about the addresses not matching up.

Now I got a real one for my site alone and it had to be www.mysite.com so only "www" will not give the warning. I thought I had it set in my .htaccess to mod_rewrite prepend the "www" onto the front of the domain name so that if someone typed "http://mydomain.com" it would redirect to "http://www.mydomain.com"

But apparently not.

I tried searching htaccess help online but either I don't know what I'm reading or I'm just not searching for the right terms.

I thought it was this code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /home/%1/www/$1 [L]

But I don't really know what that does.


I do notice that "zen-cart.com" turns into "www.zen-cart.com". And I'm wondering are you just using a simple redirect for ALL versions of the url to a "www" version of the domain? or are you checking to see if the www is already on there and using some sort of rewrite?

How do you do it? (assuming .htaccess)

[Brent]

You can set that via your two configure.php files. The define is either set to www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com.

Ages since I did it but I think that was all there was to it.

[qhome]

You can set that via your two configure.php files. The define is either set to www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com.

Ages since I did it but I think that was all there was to it.

That works for after a customer clicks a link, but not on initial page load. That would have to be done with .htaccess before the page loads. But if a customer followed a google link to a secure page, it would give them the warning if google searched it without the www. prepend. Plus it seems to work on the zen-cart forums, and wiki and other parts of the site so it is likely set to globally affect anything in the domain.

[BlindSide]

Thinking way too complicated. Do you have access to your Apache httpd.conf file? Go to your VirtualHosts section, make your site entry read something like this...

<VirtualHost 123.123.123.123:80>
DocumentRoot /www/mysite/
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
LogLevel emerg
</VirtualHost>

You could take this a step further, and make all subdomains point to your primary like so...

<VirtualHost 123.123.123.123:80>
DocumentRoot /www/mysite/
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
LogLevel emerg
</VirtualHost>

/edit: This is exactly how I have my sites set up.

[qhome]

I'm Using unix host. I'm certain the change is in the htaccess file.

[qhome]

OK I found it.

http://enarion.net/web/apache/htacce...ww-and-no-www/

edit .htaccess and add this (change domain.com to your domain):

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

[Merlinpa1969]

Q your initial page load isnt Secure anyway so it dosnt matter,
ypu can come in with http://yoursite and the first click will take them to http://www

and first click to ssl with go to https://www

[qhome]

I would for the most part agree with that but I've seen a few times my shared ssl version of the page as the google result link from a search. The link was apparently spidered that way, so from google I could click and be redirected to a product with an https:// protocol prefix. I find it hard to understand how it even managed that but it did.

I'm also just a knowledge whore so I like to know how anyway :)