Forcing redirection to WWW

[jamiedickinson]

I am having a problem that my merchant bank (Barclaycard) will only accept orders from http://WWW.webaddress.com, but sometimes people visit http://webaddress.com without the WWW, is there anyway to force the customers browser to automatically redirect to WWW when it gets to the order.php stage?

Jamie

[jhnstcks]

Yes you need to add this code to the bottom of the htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymlinks
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yourdomain.co.uk [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]

This will also help with SEO as address with and without www. are considered to be 2 different sites.

[jamiedickinson]

Thank you so much for getting back to me - this seems to work fab!

I have changed

rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]

to

rewriterule  ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/webstore$1 [r=301,nc]

as the site is technically 'www.websiteaddress.co.uk/webstore/' I hope this won't affect anything!

Thanks again!!

Jamie

[Allabouthemoney]

Hello,

I've already tried your suggestion but still doesn't work. (I've put the code right to the bottom of the document )
Do you have any other suggestions?

[jamiedickinson]

Add it to your .htaccess file not to the php file.

[Allabouthemoney]

That's what I did...I've added it to the .htacces file right at the bottom this lines of code were the last ones on the file.

but as I said it doesn't work for me Chrome is showing Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

(I've already deleted the cookies)

[jamiedickinson]

What else is in the htaccess file?

[Allabouthemoney]

This is how the .htaccess file looks like without the inserted code above:
# .htaccess automaticaly generated by PrestaShop e-commerce open-source solution
# WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE MANUALLY. IF NECESSARY, ADD YOUR SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION WITH THE HTACCESS GENERATOR IN BACK OFFICE
# http://www.prestashop.com - http://www.prestashop.com/forums



# URL rewriting module activation
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^e-bookdepository.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.e-bookdepository.net/$1 [R=301,L]

# URL rewriting rules
RewriteRule ^api/?(.*)$ /webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)\-([a-z0-9]+)(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2$3.jpg [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([0-9]+)/[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2.jpg [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.jpg$ /img/c/$1$2.jpg [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.html /product.php?id_product=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-[a-zA-Z0-9-]* /category.php?id_category=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z0-9-]*/([0-9]+)\-[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.html /product.php?id_product=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)__([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) /supplier.php?id_supplier=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)_([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) /manufacturer.php?id_manufacturer=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^content/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) /cms.php?id_cms=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^content/category/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) /cms.php?id_cms_category=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page-not-found$ /404.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^address$ /address.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^addresses$ /addresses.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^authentication$ /authentication.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^best-sales$ /best-sales.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^cart$ /cart.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^contact-us$ /contact-form.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^discount$ /discount.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^guest-tracking$ /guest-tracking.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^order-history$ /history.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^identity$ /identity.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^manufacturers$ /manufacturer.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^my-account$ /my-account.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^new-products$ /new-products.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^order$ /order.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^order-follow$ /order-follow.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^quick-order$ /order-opc.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^order-slip$ /order-slip.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^password-recovery$ /password.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^prices-drop$ /prices-drop.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search$ /search.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^sitemap$ /sitemap.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^stores$ /stores.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^supplier$ /supplier.php [QSA,L]


# Catch 404 errors
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php


ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"


FileETag INode MTime Size

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

[jamiedickinson]

There is already a 301 redirection in the file from Prestashop: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.e-bookdepository.net/$1 [R=301,L]

Depending on what you want to do you will have to overwrite that one.

Alternatively if you wanted to redirect anyone who went on www.e-bookdepository.net/store to go to www.e-bookdepository.net, create a folder called store and add your own .htaccess file with just the original redirect link above.