redirect non www to www

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  abhilashshukla · Member · Sep 4, 2015 at 3:46 am

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  Folks,

  I want to redirect my non www website domain to www.

  Currently I have the following as my DNS entries:

  A abhilashshukla.com handled by WordPress.com
  NS abhilashshukla.com handled by WordPress.com
  CNAME *.abhilashshukla.com handled by WordPress.com
  MX abhilashshukla.com mail handled by smtp.secureserver.net. with priority 0
  MX abhilashshukla.com mail handled by mailstore1.secureserver.net. with priority 10
  CNAME http://www.abhilashshukla.com alias of abhilashshukla.com.

  I know this has nothing to do with redirection. But I don’t have access to .htaccess file. Or do I have somewhere? I have purchased the domain mapping service and have mapped my domain. But I just want to have my website running with www only. As that is already indexed in google.

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  harishankerr · Member · Sep 4, 2015 at 4:04 am

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  Hello Abhilash,

  The reason why the ‘www’ domain is missing in your blog URL is because WordPress.com automatically removes the ‘www’ from all URLs. Quoting from the support article:

  WordPress.com automatically removes the “www” from all URLs. Mapping the “www” subdomain is not supported

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-subdomain/

  Effectively, the presence of ‘www’ does not make any difference – even in your search engine listings (I verified that myself; your website is in the first page of SERPs when you google your name). :)

  Happy blogging! :)

  – Hari.