Redirect to www with .htaccess
The prefix www in web hyperlinks is becoming obsolete but a lot of people still like using it. So in order to avoid a 404 when someone tries to type in a http://yourhomepage.com you will need to setup a redirection to http://www.yourhomepage.com in your .htaccess file. This is the code you will need to enter:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yourhomepage.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourhomepage.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
This also ensures that you don´t lose page rank through links pointing to http://yourhomepage.com instead of http://www.yourhomepage.com
May 8th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
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