How do I canonicalize an old HTML static site?

[mbodine]

Hey All, I have an old static HTML site, and the crawl errors are showing "http://www.website.com" and http://website.com" as the two separate pages because there is no canonicalization. Can I fix that with a rel="canonical" tag? There is just a folder of HTML files to add the tag to, so if the www. version is the true version, can I just add to all the pages? Or is there a better way to do this??

[effectdigital]

Even if it's a static site you should still be able to utilise a .htaccess file, NginX redirects or web.config depending on your server configuration - to redirect certain URLs to other addresses. Just because a site is static, that doesn't mean that .htaccess (Apache) or web.config (IIS) will not intercept and rewrite

https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/redirects/setting-up-a-301-permanent-redirect-via-htaccess

Just stick a '.htaccess' (extension only, no filename) in your site's root and edit to suit. Most apache sites will adhere to a .htaccess file, placed in the root. Be sure to use the 301 (permanent) redirect status