I believe Mitch was speaking of the Apache config file, not the Joomla config file. If you have shared hosting you won't have access to the Apache config file.
If you have shared hosting you can contact your webhost's support dept and ask them to help you with it. ----- Original Message ---- From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:37:02 PM Subject: Re: [joomla] Using www in URL Hi, Donna, Mitch I've tried both ways without luck. Donna, I do have RewriteEngine On, but when I add your lines, neither loads, with or without "www" Mitch, I put your lines in my configuration.php file, yes? But nothing loads... Dan On Aug 19, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Donna Marie Vincent wrote: > In your .htaccess file, search for "RewriteEngine" and see if it > says "on" or "off" next to it. If it has a "#" in front of it, > delete that. So, if you see this: > > # RewriteEngine on > > change it to: > > RewriteEngine on > > Or if you see: > > RewriteEngine off > > Change it to > > RewriteEngine on > > > If you don't find it in the file at all, then just type it in: > > RewriteEngine on > RewriteCond %{http_host} ^muchospanish\.com [nc] > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.muchospanish.com/$1 [R=permanent,nc,L] > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:12:11 PM > Subject: Re: [joomla] Using www in URL > > How do I see if I have the rewrite engine on? > > Dan > > > > On Aug 19, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Donna Marie Vincent > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: > >> Dan, >> >> I did this in /public_html/.htaccess: >> >> RewriteEngine on >> RewriteCond %{http_host} ^domain\.com [nc] >> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=permanent,nc,L] >> >> and it worked in both J1.5 and J1.0 (I don't see how the Joomla >> version would make a difference). >> >> Did you have "RewriteEngine on"? >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Thanks, Mitch, but how do I change it to use "www" which I prefer? >>> Also, how >>> do I have Apache re-direct? Is it in the .htaccess file? By mistake >>> I posted >>> my problem this morning in the 1.5 forum and someone said to do >>> this: >>> >>> # Rule for duplicate content removal : domain.com vs wwwdomain.com >>> >>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.muchospanish\.com [NC] >>> RewriteRule (.*) http://muchospanish.com/$1 [R=301,L,NC] >>> >>> Unfortunately, it doesn't work in the 1.0.x version. >>> >>> Thanks again. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> On Aug 18, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Mitch Pirtle wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Dan, >>>> >>>> What you need to do is decide which subdomain will be the "one true >>>> one" and tell apache to redirect the other to it. Some people for >>>> whatever reason are totally hating on our venerable "www" >>>> subdomain, >>>> so they set up the www.whatever.com to redirect to whatever.com. >>>> You >>>> can do the opposite if you are emotionally attached to www. >>>> >>>> -- Mitch >>>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, everyone >>>>> My site loads http://muchospanish.com but not http:// >>>>> www.muchospanish.com >>>>> By >>>>> the way, I'm using Joomla 1.0.x >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> Dan >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >>>>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >>>>> >>>>> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >>>>> http://www.nyphpcon.com >>>>> >>>>> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >>>>> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! 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