Question

I have an ASP.Net MVC 3 Website hosted on a shared Windows hosting package. I wish for my site to automatically add a ‘www’ prefix to all my site pages when the user does not type it in, ie, mytestpage.com redirects to http://www.mytestpage.com.

I have browsed extensively through Stackoverflow and other Internet sites to find a solution to this, but to no avail. The solutions given are to either configure IIS itself, however, I do not have access to IIS as I am using a shared hosting package.

Others have said to add the prefix via the web config file IIS7 URL Rewrite – Add "www" prefix however this seems only to work with IIS 7.

Is there any other way I can achieve this?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

On my solutions I do a check on Application Start whether the request has www or not. If not, I redirect to www.

And all my links are relative, of course.