www. vs. non www domains

[lnxcode]

Does this really make a diffrence? If so, How?

[tzeench]

Don't search engines treat them as two separate addresses? Therefore hurting your rank by splitting the www hits and the non-www hits.

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by tzeench

Don't search engines treat them as two separate addresses? Therefore hurting your rank by splitting the www hits and the non-www hits.

Yes, they do rank them differently, so what you need to do is choose one and stick with it, if you want to see PR increase or link rank increase in the future.

# Forcing www. infront of domain
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

[tzeench]

And how would one force a non-www address? Assuming it's done in the .htaccess somehow...

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by tzeench

And how would one force a non-www address? Assuming it's done in the .htaccess somehow...

You can do:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^.htaccess$ - [F]

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

RewriteRule ^(.*).shtml$ index.php?show=all
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by lnxcode

You can do:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^.htaccess$ - [F]

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

RewriteRule ^(.*).shtml$ index.php?show=all
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php

That last section may be a problem, the one with the index.php stuff. I suggest you eliminate that, as it will cause issues on some sites (it did for me).

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by Shazam

That last section may be a problem, the one with the index.php stuff. I suggest you eliminate that, as it will cause issues on some sites (it did for me).

Yea, sorry, it should be:


RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^.htaccess$ - [F]

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

[Shazam]

Now doesn't that feel better?