Sep 5, 2007
by Skellie
Apologies to everyone who tried to comment in the last 12 hours or so. It appears comments (and several other features of the site) were temporarily broken by the yes-www Wordpress plug-in.
Plug-in is now deactivated and all is well in the world.
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5 Comments, Comment or Ping
Michael from Pro Blog Design
Do you need a way of adding the http://www. to all URLs Skellie?
If so, I can tell you how. No plugins needed.
Sep 5th, 2007
skellie
That would be great, but does it involve a 301 Redirect? I’m a bit scared of doing one of those…
Sep 5th, 2007
Michael from Pro Blog Design
lol - No need to be scared! :p (Trust me, you want to do a 301. Otherwise, the search engines won’t pass along the credit)
FTP to where you installed Wordpress, and in the same place as the wp-config.php file, you will find a file called “.htaccess” Download it and open it up in a text editor. It will have some Wordpress code in it.
Above that, paste the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.skelliewag.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.skelliewag.org/1 [L,R=301]
Re-upload it and you’re done.
Sep 5th, 2007
skellie
Thanks so much Michael! I’ve actually read several different guides to doing a 301 redirect and none of them made any sense to me… until yours. I think I’m going to have a go at it tomorrow morning.
Thanks again
It’s great to have a resident code genius!
Sep 6th, 2007
Michael from Pro Blog Design
lol - I’m guessing you wrote all that before it broke! xD
Sep 6th, 2007
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