What are technical/programming/non-SEO pros and cons of www or no-www, for domains as well as sub-domains? From Jeff Atwood's twitter at http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1637428313 : "sort of regretting the no-www choice because it causes full cookie submission to ALL subdomains. :(" What does this mean? Is there a blog post or ar...
I want to redirect all www.domain.com requests to domain.com with PHP, basically: if (substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 0, 4) === 'www.') { header('Location: http://' . substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4)); exit(); } However I do want to maintain the requested URL like in SO, for e.g.: http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/p...
I have two websites that is actually the same where example.com shares all files from examples.com. So whatever changes made in exampples.com, example.com automatically gets updated. That means they have the same .htaccess file. The problem is, I want to both sites redirects to non www to a www url. I got this: RewriteEngine on RewriteC...
I am trying to redirect my whole site to non-www here is the htaccess code I am using # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress # no www RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HO...
The automatic sitemap for my Django site fluctuates between including the www on urls and leaving it out (I'm aiming to have it in all the time). This has ramifications in google not indexing my pages properly so I'm trying to narrow down what would be causing this issue. I have set PREPEND_WWW = True and my site record in the sites fra...
I am having a confusion which domain to go with. domain or www.domain I dont care about the redirections between each other. I would like to know which one is better in any ways. Update: Greg's links below have very useful info. Must visit. ...
We need to default URL to unique name. If it is www then with no prefix or vice versa. So decision to be made is either stick with www or with no prefix. With no prefix cookie is set for all sub domains. What are other downsides for it? Or benefits? Basically we need this for OpenID as OpenID will make users look different if they came...
I have a .net url which works perfectly with the www in front of it but when the url is just http://example.net its bringing up an under construction page. I have tried all sorts of .htaccess files but nothing is working! Help! ...
I would have thought this would be better documented somewhere, but cannot find much information on the subject. Basically I'm using htaccess to instill 3 rules on the site i'm working on: Redirect / rewrite non-www to www Remove the extensions from each of the site pages - they're php files. Doing this means that the site index becom...