WWW redirect to canonical form

  • Unknown's avatar
    tibetanaatisha · Member ·

    I need to redirect www prefix to canonical domain nameHi, I have recently purchased a WordPress.com service for my webpage. I have used in the past a wordpress.org application hosted in my own virtual servers and there are many references from multiple sites to our webpage (google, youtube, Facebook, tweeter, and more) http://www.lalita.net. Now I am hosting my page with your service and apparently I can not use www any more but lalita.net instead. This is a big problem because most people (non technical) are used to put www as prefix. Is there a solution, I do not care if is automatically redirected to the canonical form and appears in the url on its form I just do not want to loose customers, traffic and many years of SEO.

    Kind regards, Jeronimo

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  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    To answer your question, anyone who types http://www.lalita.net will be redirected to http://lalita.net automatically. Nothing more you need to set up on your end.

    I see that you have domain mapping added to your site already, and your domain appears ready to go. From here, all you need to do is go to Store>Domains, and set lalita.net as your primary domain.

    Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

  • Unknown's avatar
    tibetanaatisha · Member ·

    Hi, Right, but is not happening, when I put http://www.lalita.net it does not go any where. below is what I get when I do NSLOOKUP.

    Rapex:~ jeronimospotorno$ nslookup
    > http://www.lalita.net
    Server: 80.58.61.250
    Address: 80.58.61.250#53

    Non-authoritative answer:
    http://www.lalita.net canonical name = lalita.net.
    Name: lalita.net
    Address: 66.155.11.238
    Name: lalita.net
    Address: 76.74.254.120
    Name: lalita.net
    Address: 66.155.9.238
    Name: lalita.net
    Address: 192.0.81.250
    Name: lalita.net
    Address: 192.0.80.250
    Name: lalita.net
    Address: 76.74.254.123

  • Unknown's avatar
    tibetanaatisha · Member ·

    Sorry my mistake, I had some entries in my local hosts file from a previous server.

    No is working!

    Thank you.

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