Does anyone know how to make all the visitors from http://mysite.com to silently be redircted to http://www.mysite.com? Similar to no-www but i actually appreciate www. Thanks.

In your htaccess file, probably located in public_html, add the following code:

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

That should set you up fine and will redirect all visitors from the non-www address to www

Didn't work for me

Whym made a typo; the filename is .htaccess and should be in the root folder of your site. If you're running an Apache server that should work.

Is it jsut me that hates sites with www. some sites dont work without it which i find pathtic and givves me a bad impression of the site and how its run.

i prepose we ditch the www.

I'm a non-www type guy myself. I just did some work for a client that had canonical issues (www.domain.com and domain.com were the same page). Ended up making all the urls www so search engines wouldn't think it was two different pages with duplicate content. Most the backlinks were the www version. Does anyone know if it hurts to change all your url's to domain.com if your backlinks all say www at the beginning?

btw, thanks for the code, whym.

Does anyone know if it hurts to change all your url's to domain.com if your backlinks all say www at the beginning?

Yes it will, even 301 redirecting will kill your rankings for several weeks/months and it can be many months before the external backlink value catches up.