www vs non www

[Bun]

Please excuse my ignorance but if I place a 301 redirect from the non www.mysite address to the www.mysite address in the .htaccess file would this help solve possible duplicate content problems?

And is it a case of a simple 301 redirect like the ones I've been using to re-direct old site pages to new ones?

Regards

[wjcampbe]

Yes, and Yes again. Only caveat - check first that both work. If the non-www is the only one that works, then you will want to 301 the www to that.

[Bun]

Yes, and Yes again. Only caveat - check first that both work. If the non-www is the only one that works, then you will want to 301 the www to that.

In the address bar if I put http://mysite.co.uk or http://www.mysiteco.uk they both go to my main index page. I've specified in Google Webmaster Tools that my prefferred domain is http://www.mysite.co.uk

So am I right in thinking the 301 should redirect from http://mysite.co.uk to http://www.mysite.co.uk

Thank you for your time and patience

[wjcampbe]

No - it should direct from mysite.co.uk/ to http://www.mysite.co.uk/ - you only ever use the http on the right side of a redirect.

[Bun]

Am I heading in the right direction with this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

Regards

[wjcampbe]

No idea, I always do it the easy way

Redirect Permanent ecclestonanglingcentre.co.uk/ http://www.ecclestonanglingcentre.co.uk/

[Mike Hughes]

Bun,

That's very similar to the code I posted here: http://community.actinic.com/showpos...0&postcount=12

and yes, I would do it this way as it redirects all non-www. urls to the www. equivalent rather than just the home page.

Mike

[Bun]

Bun,

That's very similar to the code I posted here: http://community.actinic.com/showpos...0&postcount=12

and yes, I would do it this way as it redirects all non-www. urls to the www. equivalent rather than just the home page.

Mike

I've put the code in place and it seems to work fine.....if I now type in the non www.mysite it gets directed to www.mysite

Thank you for confirmation......I feel a little bit better now