www.sitename.com to sitename.com

i was looking for ,htaccess to redirect to http://www.template-site.com/
to http://template-site.com/
by the way which notation do you recommend i like http://template-site.com/ because it has a " - "
thank you

 

It shouldn't matter which one you go with if you're redirecting them.

Here is the code for mod_rewrite to do 301. There are a million ways to do it, but I prefer mod_rewrite.

To remove the www

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^template-site\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://template-site.com/ [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

To add the www

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.template-site\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.template-site.com/ [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

 

thanks i will implement this