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  "path": "/t/redirect-www-for-subdomains/118017#post_3",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-18T12:40:01.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "How to force away from / to www",
    "Community Guides",
    "to create",
    ".htaccess Examples"
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  "textContent": "The Redirects tool in the control panel and client area can only be used to redirect to _other_ websites. The www/non-www redirect must be done in another way.\n\nIf your website itself has functionality to do this, then I would recommend to just use that.\n\nIf it doesn’t, then you can setup this redirect with custom .htaccess rules. We have a few different community guides with examples for this:\n\nHow to force away from / to www Community Guides\n\n> There are many ways to force www/non www, but this way requires to create/edit .htaccess file (htdocs/.htaccess or yoursite.dom/htdocs/.htaccess) Forcing away from www. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yoursite.dom [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursite.dom/$1 [L,R=301] ^^ changing that to https forces away from www. and also forces https encryption Forcing to www. Its basically th…\n\n.htaccess Examples Community Guides\n\n> .htaccess Guide! htaccess file allows you to set server configurations for a specific directory. This could be the root directory for your website or an /images or /downloads directory. It is used on the Apache web server. It can also be used on a handful of other web servers… I’m going to give you a mini-guide on htaccess. Hope you find it useful! Warning: BEFORE you edit your .htacces file, store a copy of it in case you mess it up! Redirect to https RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} …",
  "title": "Redirect www for subdomains?"
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