Using multisite subdirectories has killed my PR, need to change back, help!

Ok, I have changed to this in the config file – define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );

And nothing crashed on me, but still don’t have my www’s back.

Ok have now changed it back, because my two blogs I have nearly finished developing would need days more work to fix all the links… is there any domain mapping or something similar I can do to get the www’s back?

(sorry to keep posting Qs in the same post… I am having a bit of a panic).

Ok, I have changed it back to ‘false’ and added the MU domain mapping plugin to fix the problems with the other sites, now just need to fix the www issue… thanks

Go to Super Admin -> Sites and stuff the www in?

really, the PR doesn’t matter much. you’re still in search results, yes? Google may see a site with the www as different than one without, because of the way the server is set up.

you could leave the www part alone and do a redirect in htaccess to tell google that all thsoe www links are now non. it’ll sort itself out.

It won’t let me add the www in, it’s all greyed out?

And also can you please explain exactly what I would need to add in and where in the htaccess to do what you suggested? thanks so much.

I do this:

# Getting rid of the WWW in front
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.dropdeadgorgeousdaily.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://dropdeadgorgeousdaily.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Put it at the top of the .htaccess file, above the WordPress calls.

thanks ipstenu – is this what the call a 301 redirect (all the google forums said I needed to do that so the crawlers would know it was a permanent move).

Yep, what ipstenu said. ??

Yeah, see the bit that says [L,R=301]? The R=301 means ‘Redirect = 301’ ?? The L just means ‘after this, stop looking for more rules under this condition.

Ah of course, perfect, thanks so much ??