Question

I have a WordPress site
my website URL is http://www.domainname.com

In wp settings panel there are two fields showing
Wordpress Address : http://www.domainname.com
Site Address : http://www.domainname.com

I want my website URL to be http://domainname.com

My question is if i just change “Site Address” and remove www from it, will it cause any harm to my site ?
I dont have domain name with http://domainname.com
I only have http://www.domainname.com
Will the change work smoothly ?
I want that when my site accessed it shows http://domainname.com in URL bar of browser.
and when some post or page is clicked it will show http://domainname.com/postname.

Answer 1

Change your .htaccess file to something like this:

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

If you have any WordPress permalinks, you’ll want to copy that over too. Here’s an example:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

#Enter in new lines of code here
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>