Magento

Title says it all but…

This is good practice from an SEO standpoint. I don’t care about the backend URLs being standardized, but want to make sure that any crawlers or browsers are automatically sent to the “www” version of front end URLs, if they forget to type it or come in through a link that doesn’t include it.

I know I could just modify .htaccess to do this but I’m pretty lost when working with it, so I didn’t want to break any of the other SEF functionality.

Thanks!

this is how we do it: - place this in the .htaccess file (we have it at the top):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainname\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainname.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Obviously alter domainname to be you domain and change the .co.uk if you are on a .com domain

Hope this helps