godaddy url forwarding while keeping relative path

Question

I'm hosting my website on Google app engine and my domain name on Godaddy.

Google app engine does not allow you to have naked URLs. So it doesn't allow you to have example.com but does allow you to have `www.example.com.

I can easily enable forwarding in Godaddy to forward exmample.com to www.example.com however it does not keep the relative URL path.

For example I would like for: example.com/images/3.jpg to be forwarded to www.example.com/images/3.jpg and not just www.example.com.

Answer 1

Why don't you just use .htaccess

Create a text file. and copy and paste the following inside:

# Force 'non-www' to 'www'
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^YOURDOMAIN.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/$1 [L,R=301] 

1. rename it to ".htaccess"
2. upload it to your "public_html" folder where index.php is located