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    • dschapira
      dschapira last edited by

      There is a lot of talk about this all over this site (and other's), but just about every solution mentions using the .htaccess file, which is only a solution for Apache.  My sites are in a shared windows environment, so that won't work for me.  I have access to the IIS manager for the server, and have several page-level redirects in place.

      My issue is that I cannot find a clear and easy way to re-direct my root (domain.com) domain, to my preferred specific domain (www.domain.com).  I found a few articles online relating to a URL re-write module for IIS, but am not sure if I will be able to install that on a shared web server.  Is there another way to accomplish my goal of not having 2 indexable versions of my site?  I have rel-canonical tags on every page, but would prefer a more trustworthy and established solution.

      Thanks for any help you can offer.

      -Dave

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      • tylerfraser
        tylerfraser last edited by

        This clearly answers your question: http://www.webpronews.com/how-to-set-up-a-redirect-on-iis-nonwww-domain-name-to-www-domain-name-2005-09

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