I'm currently trying to set up my personal webpage.

I am using a VPS and have manually installed Wordpress, and everything seems to work... except if I go to the non-www version of my website, it comes up with a page not found.

www.andrewrockefeller.com <-- Works

andrewrockefeller.com <-- Does not (and I want to redirect it to www.andrewrockefeller.com)

I have tried adding RewriteEngine functionality to my .htaccess, and that isn't working.

I have also tried adding the 'most-voted' method of adding to my default file (which apache2.conf pulls from:

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName andrewrockefeller.com
  Redirect 301 / http://www.andrewrockefeller.com/
</VirtualHost>

Seeing how many people are able to get the above working, is there something else I may be missing to allow that to function?

Thank you for your time!

EDIT: My .htaccess file is as follows:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

The #Wordpress section was autocreated when I changed the settings from ?p=1 (ugly links) to prettylinks. Any proposed solutions I've found on here I've tried out and restarted apache2, and it hasn't worked.