How to get my website to read www.diana-jacqueline-psychic.com not diana-jacquel

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  diana4108 · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 6:16 am

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  Would appreciate some help in getting my website to read http://www.diana-jacqueline-psychic.com instead of just diana-jacqueline-psychic.com I read a post that said I could go to settings ind change it there however there is no option available to do this when I go into settings

  Thank you

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  mizagorn · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 7:17 am

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  Hi Diana,

  Can you give me an example of where you would like to see the http://www. part of your URL, but you are *not* seeing it?

  Thank you!

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  diana4108 · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 8:22 am

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  when i type the website name into the browser http://www.diana-jacqueline-psychic.com the moment the webpage comes up it changes in my browser to just say diana-jacqueline-psychic.com but with no www

  thanks

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  mizagorn · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 8:42 am

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  OK, I see.

  That is something that modern browsers do automatically to any URL that uses the most common parameters for protocol and domain location.

  The http:// part of your URL means for the internet to use what’s called HyperText Transport Protocol. For web pages, basically. Another example would be ftp:\ which means that your internet action is expecting to use the File Transfer Protocol. Since http:\ is by far the most common protocol used, browsers do not display that in the address bar if that is what is being used, to save space in the address bar and increase readability.

  The same thing applies to www. This tells the web server you are connecting to to show the root World Wide Web folder on that server. It means there is no subdomain, which would be in another folder on the server.

  Again, www. is by far the most common usage of location, so the browser does not display it for the same reasons.

  For example, this topic is on the en.forums. subdomain of the wordpress.com domain. Since there is a subdomain that is not the default www., then the browser shows it.

  Your full URL is still http:\www.diana-jacqueline-psychic.com. Browsers are just not showing the full URL because it is not necessary. The “missing” parts are implied.

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  mizagorn · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 8:44 am

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  Apologies for using back slashes instead of forward slashes. I’m more used to typing folder names than URL’s. But the point is the same. :)