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Hello, so firstly:
Wamp Version 3.1.0 - 64bit
Apache version 2.4.27

So my problem is, I copied a live joomla website, all the files with FTP to my PC and then uploaded them to the localhost site directory.. wamp/www/site.... and also exported/imported the database.

But now when I go to my localhost, select my website under virtual hosts, it redirects me to "www.mysite/ instead of mysite/ how it should be, so therefore I cannot access the site. I can access the backend normally and there is no www infront.. mysite/administrator

Over on the joomla forum they told me they cant help me because this is most likely not a joomla problem.

Hi

Show us your httpd-vhosts.conf file and also check that you put the new domain name in the HOSTS file. Maybe show us the HOSTS file as well.

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Hello, I don't know if it's possible to attach files or pictures, so I will just copy it here I hope that is fine..

HOSTS: (not sure if you need the whole file or just this part)

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 joomla


VHOSTS:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp64/www/"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp64/www/joomla/"
ServerName joomla
ServerAlias joomla
</VirtualHost>

Hi

Why have you changed the contents of the httpd-vhosts.conf file? That is not what was delivered by WAMPServer?

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Hello,

I was following some tutorial about some problems I had and it said to empty the vhosts file and write the info this way. I'm guessing that was not a good idea.. :s

Hi,

Why do you follow tutorials, written by people who don't know much about it and who date, when everything you need is here.

Your hosts file MUST be:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

127.0.0.1 joomla
::1 joomla

and your httpd-vhosts.conf file MUST be :

# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName localhost
  ServerAlias localhost
  DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
  <Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Require local
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName joomla
   DocumentRoot "c:/wamp64/www/joomla"
  <Directory "c:/wamp64/www/joomla/">
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Require local
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#

In addition, all the tools needed to manage VirtualHost are integrated in Wampserver.

- If it is not already done, apply Update 3.1.3 to your version of Wampserver
Wampserver update 3.1.3

Do not forget, after modifying the hosts and httpd-vhosts.conf files, to restart the DNS so that the changes are taken into account by the system and by Apache.
Right-click -> Tools -> DNS Restart

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Hello,

sorry, and thank you for providing me the correct structure of the files. I changed the hosts and vhosts file, updated Wampserver and restarted DNS and the site still opens as www.joomla.

PHP version im using is 5.6.31
MySql 5.7.19
MariaDB 10.2.8

If this info will mean anything

When you say the site opens as www.joomla what are you doing to get that result?

Are you clicking on the wampserver homepage?
Are you entering something directly into the browser address bar?

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Hello,

When i'm on the wampserver homepage, If I click under Projects or Virtual Hosts, both opens as www.joomla.
Same thing happens if I type it directly into the browser

First did you type `joomla` or `www.joomla` into the browser address bar?

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I type in "joomla" and when I press enter it automatically changes to www.joomla.. it does this in chrome and firefox.. When I type "joomla" in microsoft edge it doesn't add www. but it says page unavailable.. If that means anything

Can you open a command windows and do

> ping joomla

And show the result.

Possibly you may need a reboot to make the DNSCache refresh

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Hello, sorry for the late reply I was out of the office.

these are the results:

Pinging joomla [::1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms

Ping statistics for ::1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

And after that it still gives you the same issues?

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Yes.

I made a new virtual host with a fresh cms version without copying the content and its working normally.. my guess is there are probably some settings somewhere that are forcing this rewrite or however shoud I call it.. perhaps in the .htaccess file? No clue

Thats a very good point, that may well be your issue.

Check the Joomla config file

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Everything seems in order in configuration.php, only the database and logs path and things like that needed so that can't be it.. Hmmm..

These settings are in the .htaccess, is there anything wrong in here perhaps?

Options +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

Sorry, no Joomla experts here

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.1.7 32bit & 64bit)
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Okay, well thank you for your help still

Hello, just posting here to tell if anyone else faces this problem: in Joomla there is a component called Artio JoomSEF which was causing this, to fix it go to JoomSEF global configuration and set www and non-www domain handling to non-www.