Question

for some weird reason my CMS is logging out if the address bar does not have www before the full website name. for example, when we enter xyz.com, it takes me to the website but then it wont show as logged in and if i type in http://www.xyz.com it will find the cookie and show me logged in.

What i want to do is, when user types in xyz.com, i want it to directly (transparent to user) go to http://www.xyz.com. I want to add that www before xyz.com. I tried adding a .htaccess file in the directory where index.php is present and this is code in htaccess file.

DirectoryIndex index.php
Redirect xyz.com www.xyz.com/index.php

The .htaccess file is disappearing when i transfer it over ftp filezilla.

Answer 1

If you are willing to modify your index.php you could add the following logic to the top of the file:

/*This is a tempory redirection from mysite.com to www.mysite.com*/
if($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mysite.com')
{
    $redirect =     $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    header( 'Location: http://www.mysite.com'. $redirect ) ;
}