Page errors related to the "Base URL"

[mattbf]

Hello,

I set my base URL under "Location Installed" in the admin panel to http://mysite.com

If I go to mysite.com (without the www.) everything works fine. However, if I enter the URL as www.mysite.com a lot of the features are broken including voting, the spy tool, and many others. They receive an error, for example if I try to vote I get a "Permission denied" page error in the status bar of the browser.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks,

Matt

[ChuckRoast]

Rename htaccess.default that comes with the package to .htaccess

[mattbf]

Hi Chuck,

I removed the other .htaccess file and renamed htaccess.default to .htaccess but I'm still receiving the same error

[ChuckRoast]

You could always add something like this to the .htaccess which will drop the www when anyone uses it.

change MYSITE with your domain

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.MYSITE\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://MYSITE.com/$1 [R=301,L]