Re: [OT] webserver ?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 03.05.2004 schrieb Michael Weiner um 19:31:

>  I have a rather large domain i am responsible for running a
> webserver,
>  and in an effort to improve the site's rankings in search engines, a
>  consulting firm has suggested some interesting changes to the way the
>  webserver operates. Their first suggestion which i am struggling with is
>  to take all requests to http://w.blah, http://ww.blah and send a 301
>  redirect back to the user to http://www.blah. Not being an apache
>  rewrite module expert, i thought i would throw the question out to the
>  community at large and see what suggestions might arise. 
I don't know how such a redirect would influence search engine ranking,
but using mod_rewrite would looks like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)        http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1   [R=301]

(I hope it will survive line wrapping, above instructions are 4 lines)

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html for further details.

Alexander


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