My WPP has somehow configured the (Unix) webserver to prefix the URL
with a www. if there is no trailing slash (/) at the end of the URL.

eg. http://myurl.com/test/ is left untouched but
http://myurl.com/test is changed to
http://www.myurl.com/test/ ...which causes all further links to be
prefixed with www.

I want to stop this. Is there anything I could put in .htaccess to just
put a trailing slash on the end, but prevent the www being prefixed?
--
Lee J. Moore
"Life is short, art is long."

On 25 Feb 2005 18:08:29 GMT, LJM <subtextwhore@gmail.com> wrote:
> My WPP has somehow configured the (Unix) webserver to prefix the URL
> with a www. if there is no trailing slash (/) at the end of the URL.
>
> eg. http://myurl.com/test/ is left untouched but
> http://myurl.com/test is changed to
> http://www.myurl.com/test/ ...which causes all further links to be
> prefixed with www.
>
> I want to stop this. Is there anything I could put in .htaccess to just
> put a trailing slash on the end, but prevent the www being prefixed?

Read apache docs for UseCanonicalName. But you may not be able to set
that off in .htaccess, because it says Context: server config, virtual
host, directory, but virtual host and directory can only be done in server
config. So your web host would need to change that (possibly within your
VirtualHost section if a virtual host).

Friends, David Efflandt, countrymen, lend me your newsreaders:
> On 25 Feb 2005 18:08:29 GMT, LJM <subtextwhore@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My WPP has somehow configured the (Unix) webserver to prefix the URL
>> with a www. if there is no trailing slash (/) at the end of the URL.
>>
>> eg. http://myurl.com/test/ is left untouched but
>> http://myurl.com/test is changed to
>> http://www.myurl.com/test/ ...which causes all further links to be
>> prefixed with www.
>>
>> I want to stop this. Is there anything I could put in .htaccess to just
>> put a trailing slash on the end, but prevent the www being prefixed?
>
> Read apache docs for UseCanonicalName. But you may not be able to set
> that off in .htaccess, because it says Context: server config, virtual
> host, directory, but virtual host and directory can only be done in server
> config. So your web host would need to change that (possibly within your
> VirtualHost section if a virtual host).

It was actually leaving the URL alone unless a directory was specified
without a trailing slash. In adding the slash, it also added the www.
at the beginning of the URL. I figured the following RewriteRule would
fix it:

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

I don't think that will cause problems elsewhere.
--
Lee J. Moore
"Life is short, art is long."