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Reputation: 325

How to put www in front of a wordpress site url in htaccess?

I have a wordpress site accessed like http://example.com/

but my client wants to have it accessed like http://www.example.com/

I am finding this code as a solution

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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

But I am getting an error of redirect loop

Could you please advice me what am i doing wrong?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1713

Answers (2)

Fernando Moreira
Fernando Moreira

Reputation: 11

You have an easy way to do this inside of wordpress:

Go to your wordpress dashboard and:

1) Select Settings 2) Select option General, 3) Add to your WordPress Address (URL) the www part 4) Add to your Site Address (URL) the www part

And done!

Upvotes: 1

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785196

You're missing http:// from your www forcing rule. Also important is to have your www rule before other WP rules:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Also don't forget to change WP permalinks to have www in Site and Home URLs

Upvotes: 6

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