Redirecting sitename to www.sitename

Keral_Patel · Sep 11, 2007

Redirecting your sitename.com to www.sitename.com with help of .htaccess

Create a .htaccess file or add the code to an existing one on your server.

If you are creating a new .htaccess file make sure it is in the root folder of the site.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^sitename.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Where sitename.com and www.sitename.com will be replaced by your original details of the site itself.

This will only work on apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled.

Tobiasz · Sep 11, 2007

And last but not least - do not forget about last empty line (just hit Enter after last line of code twice)

Daniel · Sep 11, 2007

The alternative rule:

Code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.site\.us$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://site.us/$1 [R=301,L]

blatant · Sep 23, 2007

Thanks worked like a charm!

deleted984054565403 · Oct 5, 2007

Thanks, Nick. I've been too lazy to dig up this code.

Waiter · Oct 12, 2007

So does it mean if I type sitename in brouther it redirects you to sitemname.com? I have seen such situations, but I thought it is google.

mis_chiff · Oct 12, 2007

Waiter said:
So does it mean if I type sitename in brouther it redirects you to sitemname.com? I have seen such situations, but I thought it is google.

It means if you type in sitename.com it
takes you to www.sitename.com

Pointer · Oct 20, 2007

By the way,
I heard, that Google like website which are redicting from http:// to http://www.
I mean, it help with PageRank.

Daniel · Oct 20, 2007

Pointer said:
By the way,
I heard, that Google like website which are redicting from http:// to http://www.
I mean, it help with PageRank.

Never heard of that.
Never had proof of that.

Could you tell me where you found this information?

-NC- · Oct 20, 2007

Matt Cutts suggests it's a good idea:

You can make your webserver so that if someone requests http://example.com/, it does a 301 (permanent) redirect to http://www.example.com/. That helps Google know which url you prefer

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

Daniel · Oct 27, 2007

-NC- said:
Matt Cutts suggests it's a good idea:

You can make your webserver so that if someone requests http://example.com/, it does a 301 (permanent) redirect to http://www.example.com/. That helps Google know which url you prefer

Click to expand...

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

He doesnt' say either is better, he says Google learns your preference. :p

irishmat · Oct 27, 2007

are there any other ways of doing this as its not working for my site

www.7dl.com resolves, 7dl.com doesnt

xrvel · Dec 5, 2007

I have default .htaccess :

Code:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.{mydomain}.com
AuthUserFile /home/iwantw/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/iwantw/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Where should i add the add-on htaccess code?

indowebber · Dec 10, 2007

am i know why i must directing ?
and because as i can see there some people just prefer to http://domain and some people have choose http://www.domain so, which one the best ?
and if i want to use http://domain is it right the code off httacsess

Code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^\.site\.us$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://site.us/$1 [R=301,L]

regards

mis_chiff · Dec 10, 2007

xrvel said:

I have default .htaccess :

Code:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.{mydomain}.com
AuthUserFile /home/iwantw/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/iwantw/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Where should i add the add-on htaccess code?

Add the code umat_gila pasted above,
on a new line in your .htaccess right after what you posted above.

xrvel · Dec 10, 2007

mis_chiff said:
Add the code umat_gila pasted above,
on a new line in your .htaccess right after what you posted above.

Thanks. it works :D

indowebber · Dec 12, 2007

xrvel said:

I have default .htaccess :

Code:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.{mydomain}.com
AuthUserFile /home/iwantw/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/iwantw/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^\.site\.us$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://site.us/$1 [R=301,L]

thats the conclusion right ?
ill try

trsaso · Apr 22, 2008

-Nick- said:
Redirecting your sitename.com to www.sitename.com with help of .htaccess

Create a .htaccess file or add the code to an existing one on your server.

If you are creating a new .htaccess file make sure it is in the root folder of the site.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^sitename.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Where sitename.com and www.sitename.com will be replaced by your original details of the site itself.

This will only work on apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled.

Tested on my site and working wery well , rep+
Thanks

Keral_Patel · Apr 22, 2008

Thanks

I am much happy that it helped you all. It is this that always inspires me to write stuff :p

trampy · Apr 28, 2008

The reason why you might do this for google or any other search engine is that there is a limit as to how many characters the crawler recognizes in the url. So if you have a long url with a lot of keywords in it the loss of the www gives you three extra characters.

I think limit is like 255 characters typically which is a lot, but if you have some script generating your page names it could happen.

Keral_Patel · Apr 28, 2008

That's a good suggestion trampy

Will keep it in mind whenever there is a situation like this. But it rarely comes. Yet it might be beneficial for someone

Thanks for posting it

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