www. & domainname.com

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    Having trouble with the root domian name http://name and the www.name. Webmaster tools and site checkers show my site having 2 different url s causing duplications. I cannot redirct the root domain to the www. one as my hosting company says it does not support root domains. Confused, any advice?
     
    Spacefruit, Feb 25, 2009 IP
  2. manish.chauhan

    manish.chauhan Well-Known Member

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    R u hosted on Apache or IIS??
     
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  3. Spacefruit

    Spacefruit Active Member

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    not sure, just deal with hosting company.
     
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  4. EZYWebhost

    EZYWebhost Peon

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    use mod rewrite and disabled the www. since www. is useless now days.
     
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    saleelm03 Well-Known Member

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    you can select http://yoursite.com option from webmaster tool. So the duplication problem won't happen.
     
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  6. EZYWebhost

    EZYWebhost Peon

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    This is the rule if you want it for htaccess.

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

    change the domain.net to your current domain.
     
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    do the above, and also set in webmaster tools, as already stated.
     
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    Spacefruit Active Member

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    thanks guys...got something to work with now.
     
    Spacefruit, Feb 26, 2009 IP