Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: htaccess

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<span style="color: #990000;">Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess</span></h2>
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For <b>SEO purposes</b> this is good practice to keep your website urls either with www or without www only. In this tutorial you will learn how to force redirect to <b>www</b> or non-www url only. 301 status code tells search engines that the page has permanently moved to a new location.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 34px;">Force Redirect to WWW or Non-WWW</span></div>
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Login to server with admin privileges and navigate to document root of your website. Now create a .htaccess file using one of below content as per your requirements.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Force non-www to www</span></h3>
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This will force url as www.example.com, this will always add www in url either you accessed it with or witout www.</div>
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Force www to non-www</span></h3>
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This will force url as example.com, this will always remove www from url, you either accessed it with or witout www.</div>
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enable .htaccess to Work</span></h2>
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Before using <b>.htaccess</b>, make sure your <b>.htaccess</b> is enabled to use in Apache. To enable this add following settings under your domains VirtualHost.</div>
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    <Directory "/home/user/public_html">
         Allowoverride all
    </Directory>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enable Apache Rewrite Module</span></h2>
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Also make sure Apache <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rewrite</a> module is enabled. If not use the following command to enable module.</div>
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How to Force Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess

Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess For SEO purposes this is good practice to keep your website urls either with www or without www...