301 Re Direct Question for www

anoopbal

Can smeone check this code to make sure it is right so thaqt my site uses www always.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^exercisebiology.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.exercisebiology.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I had the hostgators customer service personnel perform this. But I cannot get it to redirect. But he says it works.

NakulGoyal

Try this in the .htaccess file. It should work fine for sure. You don't need to manually add your website name.

<code class="htaccess" title="in your .htaccess file">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

anoopbal

Thank you. Worked like a charm.

Since we are on the topic, do you know how I can put a redirect for these pages: For every article, I have a few of these duplicate titles. I removed the pagination tags so it wont give out any more P's and N's But I am guessing I should do redirect. Should I ? **Here is an example of one article and the URL's with page numbers. **

NakulGoyal

I see you have canonical tags in place. Considering that, I would suggest you are good. No need to setup any of those redirects. Canonical tags are in essence sort of 301's anyways, so you are all set.

anoopbal

Thanks!

1. Can you show me how to do a redirect for for http://www.exercisebiology.comto http://www.exercisebiology.com/ I want to add the trailing slash.

2. Also how to redirect from http://www.exercisebiology.com/index.php

to http://www.exercisebiology.com/.

When I tried to redirect the index.php last time, I couldn't login to the forums. Everytime when someone tries to login to my forums, it takes them the to the home page. I did it through the hostgator CP. I am thinking someone could help me here.

Thank you so much!

Dr-Pete

Does your site use the "index.php" version of the page with parameters to handle logins? In that case, you can't 301-redirect the page across the board. You'd have to do it selectively (only for the version with no parameters), and that's going to take custom-coding. You'd probably be better off with a canonical tag, in that situation - it would keep Google from indexing the variants (including the login pages, which have no search value).

anoopbal

Yea That's what I think.

I tried adding the traoling slash with 301 redirecet, but it didn't work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$ RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.exercisebiology.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

This was the code I used. Can you tell me what is wrong please?

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