Redirecting www to non-www?

Question

Hi, I'm using wordpress and I want to use domain.com instead of www.domain.com

I read the best method to avoid problems in the search engines is to go into cpanel and edit the .htaccess file to redirect. However I found 2 difference pieces of code online and since I'm not up on this, just needed some help.



FIRST SAYS THIS CODE:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond % ^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]





SECOND SAYS THIS CODE:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

#Force non-www:
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.example.com(.*)$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com%1/$1 [R=301,L]



Really appreciate some help. Thanks.

Answer 1

For wordpress blog or website

1. Wordpress Dashboard

2. Setting then

3. General



now click "Site Address (URL) and change your url

Answer 2

First backup your .htaccess file.



If you use WordPress 3.8, you can change the site URL in General Setting, but you already know it :-D



It will be redirected automatically, no need to add any code in .htaccess



However if you already submitted your site in Google's webmaster tool, you need to edit "Site Settings" and "Set preferred domain" to use with www or without www.

Answer 3

You need to find the .htaccess file from your website root directory. Open it and add the codes above

Answer 4

you can change it by changing site url and wordpress url under settings on wordpress dashboard

Answer 5

add your code from above in your .htaccess