Internet Marketing - Bobby Jason » Apache http://bobbyjason.co.uk/blog Internet Marketing From a Web Developer Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:30:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to Ditch the WWW from Your Domain Name http://bobbyjason.co.uk/blog/73/how-to-ditch-the-www-from-your-domain-name/ http://bobbyjason.co.uk/blog/73/how-to-ditch-the-www-from-your-domain-name/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 21:54:04 +0000 BobbyJason http://bobbyjason.co.uk/blog/?p=73 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Personally, I prefer to have http://domain-name.com rather than http://www.domain-name.com

In fact, unless you specify that they are the same site, Google can treat them as seperate Websites, and you would be diluting your page rank!

So:

Connect to your website via FTP. Find your .htaccess file (usually in your public_html/www folder). If you can’t find one, just open your text editor (notepad will do) and save it as “.htaccess”.

Find some clear space, and type the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

Simple? Yep!

Save & Upload! Sorted!

note: this is to UNIX-based machines only (UNIX is the most popular out there..)

Any questions just send me a direct message or leave a comment.

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