Www vs no-www duplicate fix?

[Becky_Converge]

Hi all, I have more or less published two versions of our site. One on "www" and one without. And of course we uncovered it during our SEO crawl as "duplicate" content/titles. My guess (hope) is this is something that can be easily fixed on the server side, but I don't have a lot of knowledge around it. Does anyone know?

[Mike_Davis]

Easy fix:

in your .htaccess file, use this

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com

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

Remember to replace domain.com with your domain name.
Enjoy!

[irvingw]

also go into Google Webmaster tools and set the www preference under configuration

[Becky_Converge]

Thank you both for your responses! I was hoping it would be something as simple as this.

Best,

Becky

[Becky_Converge]

Quick question on this - will this code set it sobe setting it so the url will read the "www" or without?

[Mike_Davis]

This will make it non www.  If you want it to default to www use this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[Becky_Converge]

One more follow up - what about for an IIS server?

[Mike_Davis]

Here you go:

http://www.mcanerin.com/en/articles/301-redirect-iis.asp

Enjoy!