Magento

I’ve heard it’s a good practice to choose one and stick with it. Question is, how do I choose this in Magento?

when installing you can choose a base-url. If you leave the www you will have sitepages without the www.

You can also change it from the configuration in the backend after installing, but how that affects the system I don’t know.

This is something you might want to put into your .htaccess file.

Like so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The above rewrite plays havoc with your site.  does any one know how to redirect non www to the www equivalent when your magento install is in a subdirectory?

thanks

apologies: i sorted the non www redirect when installing magento in sub dir

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /magento_directory/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com

[NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain/magento_directory/

$1 [L,R=301]

Make sure the code goes atthe top of htaccess in shop directory - NOT SITE ROOT

If I am doing a multipal site install and want all the sites to revert to www, does magento allow for .htaccess files for each site within a sub directory? I am changing the sites path in the index.php like below and want all sites to resolve to www. I already set it in the admin, but the search engines has already indexed us without the www. Any Ideas?

$host = explode(’:’, $_SERVER[’HTTP_HOST’]);
switch ($host[0])
{
case (’site1.cc’):
case (’www.site1.cc’):
$store = ‘site1’;
break;
case (’site2.cc’):
case (’www.site2.cc’):
$store = ‘site2’;
break;
case (’site3.cc’):
case (’www.site3.cc’):
$store = ‘site3’;
break;
default:
$store = ‘’;
}