www and non www redirection help please

Hello,

After doing some reading i have a few questions.

I have a load of articles on my blogs, now will google see my site a duplicate if i dont do a redirect?

How do i setup redirection on windows hosting, I cannot use .htaccess.

Thanks in advance.

Dave.

 

Google looks at the content to determine if its duplicate.... not where the content resides.

 

Will it count as duplicate then as technically it is isnt it?

Thanks

Dave.

 

Its time now for you to switch on linux hosting.

 

My host says i can just add code to index.php... not sure if this is the right way to do things though?

So to clarify... sorry this is all new to me... even though the content is on the same site google will count http://www.domain and http://domain as duplicate content?

Thanks Guys!

Dave.

 

Just found this for all you windows hosters.

http://support.appliedi.net/article.aspx?id=11287&cNode=7Y6Q2Q

Basically if you can get your host to install ISAPI-rewrite it can be done.

It also means MOD rewrite can be done too for URLs.

Which is a result considering I only just signed up with my current host and moving 12 domains and databases isn't very appealing.
Dave.

 

Could use some php

<?php
if (substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,3) != 'www') {
	header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); 
	header('Location: http://www.'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
	.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
?>

PHP:

I found some examples here http://www.beyondink.com/howtos/301-redirect.html