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Curt
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2005-May-28 09:00
How do I force the browser and the search engines to follow links in the form of "www.domain.com" instead of "domain.com"? I want all urls with "domain.com" to show in browser with "www.domain.com".
I've tried altering the htaccess file by adding a line that looks like this:
redirect 301 / http:// www.domain.com
It didn't work right. I believe it caused some sort of circular page loading and the browser couldn't load the pages on the site after I added that line to the htaccess file. There must be some other way to force all URL's to default to the www.domain.com format for browsers and to ensure that search engines only index pages from the www.domain.com format only. I don't want the engines to index pages from domain.com (domain without the "www." ) .
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david68
Joined: May 16, 2005
# Posts: 144
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Posted: 2005-May-28 13:55
Why not? "www" is basically being discontinued. Most sites don't need it anymore to be accessed.
From "no-www dot org" ...
This site tells you why "www" shouldn't be bothered with and how to make your domain work without it. This is how to tell your site to work without it, I assume it can be reversed to make it not worth without it...
-quote-
Class B means that all of the traffic to www.yourdomain.com is politely and silently redirected to http://yourdomain.com. This is currently the preferred no-www classification as it does not inconvenience your users, but it does assert the deprecated nature of the www subdomain.
The process of making your domain a Class B is quite simple. All you need to do is create or modify a file called .htaccess located in the root directory of your site and add the following lines, changing the red text to match your domain.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
-end quote-
I'm not sure if that helps but it's something I found awhile back.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
# Posts: 10465
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Posted: 2005-May-29 18:36
Redirect from non-www to www for the whole site:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Your original one line code redirects only for one page.
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Curt
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 3747
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Posted: 2005-Jun-09 13:34
david68, I want to ensure that I don't get duplicate indexes in the SE's. It would not be good if the SE's index URL's with and without "www" in the URL. Since my domains have back-links to the "www" version, I don't want inadvertant future back-links to point to a URL version without the "www" and not have a way to redirect it to the "www" version.
g1smd, Thanks a bunch. I'll give that a try. 
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