Any danger in this?

I'm still playing around with my site and have noticed that if I type http://url.com it takes me to my site as well. Is there any danger in having both the http://www.url.com address work as well as the http://url.com ??

 

I guess I would be curious to know why you'd be worry about that? I don't know the answer to this, but I'm curious as well.

 

Danger?
Why you though it's dangerous?

 

Well maybe not life and death dangerous but I suppose I'm more so concerned that search engines might view it as 2 sites and therefore may affect PR or something in some way?

 

google will think its 2 sites. If you use google sitemap, you can tell google to always use the www. one.

 

Is there a way I can get it forwarding or make browsers just use the one?

 

301 redirect

 

Thanks for that link. So basically I need to place the following code in the .htacess file of the root directory:

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

Code (markup):

Can I simply cut and paste this code into the existing .htaccess file? If so does it matter where I paste it?
Thanks

 

Just paste it. If it doesn't work, post your .htaccess file here and we'll see what's wrong

 

Cool, I'll give it a crack tonight.
Cheers

 

Actually you do not use a 301 to fix this 301 fixes broken links on the web

You need to do a Canonical URL rewrite

The goal of this rule is to force the use of a particular hostname, in preference to other hostnames which may be used to reach the same site. For example, if you wish to force the use of www.example.com instead of example.com, you might use a variant of the following recipe.
Solution:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully\.qualified\.domain\.name [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name/$1 [L,R]


This should solve your problem and solidify your PR

301 wtf?

 

Google is using 301 redirect for the same thing. wtf?

 

Really......where is the proof?

 

Run this script and you'll see.

<?php

	$fp = fopen("http://google.de", 'r');
	$meta_data = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
	fclose($fp);
	
	print_r($meta_data);
	
?>

PHP:

 

Confused now guys, what am I sposed to do?

 

Pickels

The 301 code others gave you is if you changed page names and people linked to the old page name it will forward them to the new page name.


The canocical URL rewrite takes any links (broken / links others place) to your site and resolves them to the correct URL and at the same time solidifys your Google PR.

 

I dont run scripts from people I dont know.....either you have proof or you dont.

 

use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[COLOR="Red"]domain.com[/COLOR] [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.[COLOR="Red"]domain.com[/COLOR]/$1 [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

replace the red parts with your domain name

 

@ sem-advice, that is a safe script.

 

It may or may not be I dont trust many people here....

Also you posted the same 301 code which doesnt solve the problem correctly...

Just read my post it should make perfect sense.

If not I will be glad to meet anyone on IM or phone tomorrow