Drupal 7 multisite domain without www. not working

Question

I have moved a site (www.example.com) to a multisite installation. The path is 'sites/www.example.com'. I am reading that adding the 'www' to the sites folder is a no-no.

www.example.com - Works but..

example.com - Doesn't.

I tried creating a symlink 'example.com -> /home1/username/public_html/sites/www.example.com/

also, tried adding "$sites['example.com'] = 'www.example.com';" to my sites.php, but..nothing.

If I rename the folder to 'example.com' all of the paths in the database will be broken. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Rename the folder to example.com, create a 'sites.php' file in /sites, then add the following:

<?php
$sites = array (
  'www.example.com' => 'example.com',
);