Site wide 301 or canonical links.

[absoauto]

Hi guys, I'd like add code to my header file to specify www. as opposed to just http:// for the canonical links across my entire site. How can I do this? I'd like it to be site wide code that I can just add to my header.php file which is included across the site.

[bemils]

Since the result you want is site wide, I would use a 301 redirect.

It's more radical, but you won't depend on the right header file to be included in all pages (i.e. you will be able to use different files, if you ever need it - e.g. to set up a landing page or mini site with its own template).

[absoauto]

Hi Lodovico, thanks for your reply. I am fine with that, but do you know how I'd have to write the 301 in my .htaccess file to 301 every http://xxxxx.com page to http://www.xxxxx.com ?

[absoauto]

Sorry I should have added I don't know the symbols to use to equate to any page starting with http:// should be fwd'ed to same page but http://www.

[Jinx14678]

Hi,

I believe what you are looking for is

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

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

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

If I read the post correctly as adding a sitewide canonical in header.php would not work, unless you actually programmed a php statement that all it did was add www, but this would only be a backup, if I was unable to do 301 in my opinion

Shane

[absoauto]

Thanks Shane,

That was exactly what I was looking for!