Comments on: Generic non-www to www (and vice versa) 301 redirect using .htaccess

By: web slc

web slc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:42 +0000

You can make exceptions to directories using: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/directory_name/

By: tim

tim — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:39:21 +0000

Thanks so much about that tip for taking the caps lock off when they type it that way. It wasn’t working for users with caps lock on. Really helpful.

By: Paginas Web Lima

Paginas Web Lima — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:18:48 +0000

For the people that don’t understand what this page is about, allthough it is highly precious stuff. Each website has 2 different URL’s, with the www in front, and also without www, searchengines see these as two different pages, that means by re-direct one of them to the other, you can effectively consolidate all of your link popularity to a single URL.

By: GiB

GiB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:11:01 +0000

Apart the hardcoding of the domain, what if we cannot use .htaccess?

Is this PHP solution leading to the same solution?

$uniqueHost = ‘www.myWebSite.com’;
if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"])) {
if ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] != $uniqueHost) {
if (isset($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])) {
$redirect = ‘http://’.$uniqueHost.$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
else {
$redirect = ‘http://’.$uniqueHost;
}
header(“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);
header(“Location: “.$redirect);
exit;
}
}

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:35:22 +0000

Good solution. htaccess is a wonderful thing is it not! I really should get a list of these together for quick reference..

By: primeminister

primeminister — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:09:05 +0000

and for someone who accidentally forgot to turn off caps-lock:

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

By: primeminister

primeminister — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:06:41 +0000

Nice one! I did the same for couple of projects but this is much better