redirect from www to no www

Hi Team,

I had similar issue so things didn't work with these codes earlier. I referred few notes from Richbeales.net's blog, and webfaction docs, and few other blogs too. Mostly I feel the issue is with providing followsymlinks Hence I recognize few things,so I followed this steps when trying to redirect www.example.com to example.com. Hope you get solution through this notes.

In the control panel: Create a new application as "serverredirectedto, using "new Static/CGI/PHP-5.x" If you find www sites in any of the single sites you created earlier in "websites tab" in the webfaction control panel, remove the www domain from each of them Create a new website, call it "serverredirect", add ALL the www domains to it, and point it to the "serverredirectedto" application Save it

SSH into your server, (Kindly read about SSH after this solution works to know more about it) If someone doesn't yet know about SSH. It is Secure Shell. Secure way to log into to a remote machine which have a server software maintaining your apps and ssh provide you option to direct provide codes or applying changes without allowing others to check what you useful data. So open your terminal. And type ssh "username"@"host".webfaction.com mostly username will the one which you use to log into the webfaction dashboard. i.e., my.webfaction.com and it will pop up asking your password. Than it shows ["username"@"host" ~]$

and: cd /yourusername/webapps/serverredirectedto vi .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L,NC]

And save and exit

If you want to reverse, per say example.com to www.example.com, do the opposite way by providing codes as

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^origin_domain$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://destination_domain/$1 [R=301,L]

Have fun..