redirecting http://-----to only http://www---

louisp2500

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Feb 24, 2011

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• Aug 14, 2014

• #1

Can someone help me how to redirect my site to only show up with http://www and NOT without www?

My site is just a simple HTML site, no wordpress or joomla or anything else, just HTML

thanks in advance

 

vlaci

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Sep 2, 2013

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• Aug 14, 2014

• #2

Hi,

1.First of all create a file in notepad named htaccess.txt on your desktop.

2.add the following code in this file -

Code:

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

3.Upload it to the root of your website

4.rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess

This should be ok.

 

louisp2500

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• #3

i have just gone from windows to mac, what can i use as notepad on a mac?

 

louisp2500

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• #4

i have just done it, but it didnt seem to work, i have contactet my serverprovider

 

M4XW3LL

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Feb 5, 2013

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• #5

Google is your friend A simple search helps, but anyway here you go: http://www.site-seo-analysis.com/seo-articles/implement-www-resolve/

 

louisp2500

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• #6

Thanks, but i cant seem to get it working

 

rankwatch12

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Jun 19, 2014

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• Aug 22, 2014

• #7

You can try to create htaccess file via bbedit on Mac. Add the following code in it, save it as .txt file and upload it in the default site directory.

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

 

Aty

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Jan 27, 2011

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• Aug 22, 2014

• #8

Try this:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

 

leo29

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Jun 23, 2014

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• Aug 22, 2014

• #9

If 301 redirection seems that difficult, you can use rel=canonical in your header section
below all the meta data in the header section, you can type
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.____">.
This wont remove your http://________ page but it requests google to consider only the page with canonical tag.