OsCommerce making all the non www pages be www

Well I have been busy as ever, this time wrestling with OsCommerce for my wifes online business….

By default good old OsCommerce likes to present itself in the non www. way but my change to the urls means i have em all as www. now.

So a simple rewrite later and we are good to go… except the fucking admin section now doesnt work, i hate rewrites…

OK here is the code (pop it in your .htaccess file in the root of the domain.) for anyone who wants to make sure their oscommerce store only shows as www.domain.com pages and not domain.com and so you can still use the admin section…

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.somedomain\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somedomain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteBase /admin/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.somedomain\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://somedomain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

Also remember to tell Google via webmaster tools that you want then to only use the www. pages..