Why cant I add “www.” in my blog URL?

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  • Strange. No issues what so ever when I try to view your site with either URL. Poked around and everything. ‘A’ records exist, both with and without the ‘www’ bit.

    Works fine for me using Firefox 2. (locked down term. Can’t bring up the full version number)

    Thread Starter im1

    (@im1)

    Try it now. Its because I put it back to https://im1music.net, because I was working on it and I needed it working

    Neither https://im1music.net/ nor https://www.im1music.net/ are currently working.

    Thread Starter im1

    (@im1)

    Yes I know. Thats what im trying to get at.
    When I set the URL of my site in the wordpress settings to www.im1music.net the site doesnt load completely with or with the www.
    The site only works when the URL is set to https://im1music.net in the wordpress settings.

    Does anyone know why this could be? Is it something to do with WordPress? The domain? DNS?

    I doubt its the domain or dns because everything either than the blog works perfectly with or without the www.

    You need to modify your .htaccess file.

    Thread Starter im1

    (@im1)

    What do I need to add/modfy in my .htaccess file?

    Changing the address in your WordPress admin panel only tells the site links where to point, the actual DNS is only valid if you’ve created an ‘A’ class subdomain to your main domain.

    For example, you registered https://im1music.net with your hosting provider, yes? That’s a root level domain name.
    “www.” is nowadays usually a class A subdomain they add by default for use, but sometimes, they don’t add this. You have to configure Apache (or IIS or other HTTP server software) to use it via something called “Virtual Hosts”. If you do not host the site on your own server, you’ll have to contact your host about it.

    Tell your host you simply need to use “www.” in your URL and they should be able to help you out. By the way, using .htaccess won’t work if “AllowOverride” is denied by your host.

    Thread Starter im1

    (@im1)

    when setting both (site and blog url) with the www. the only pages that it will load is the dashboard (www.mysite.com/wp-admin), if i try and go to the actual blog then it will refuse to load, It keeps saying loading and then connecting to and it just goes in a loop with these two messages.

    Can someone PLEASE help me!

    Add this to your .htaccess file

    # Redirect to WWW
    rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourwebsite\.com
    rewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourwebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

    can we do this in IIS without the htaccess file?

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