normalizing site urls (redirect www.site.com to site.com) best practice

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i want to redirect all requests like this:

www.site.com/*

to this (removing the www):

site.com/*

so far i do it like this:

for each of my apps i create an extra static app bound to 'www.site.com' containing only .htaccess file (which does a 301 redirect to site.com/*)

is there a cleaner solution?

thanks

Answer 1

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Assuming that the application mounted at www.site.com isn't already a PHP application that is the cleanest solution. If, however, the application is already PHP-based, you can simply add the redirects to your current .htaccess file.

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answered 03 Jul '11, 05:49

David L ♦♦
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Answer 2

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Here's a generic rewrite that you can use rewrite any www subdomain to its parent domain.

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

So, with this you can:

Create a single static/cgi/php app.
Add that example to .htaccess for that app.
Create a single website that serves that app for all of your www subdomains and redirects them to the appropriate site based on the subdomain of the incoming request.

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answered 04 Jul '11, 19:35

seanf
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I haven't used rewrite like this before. Thanks for this. Now I'll have a neater list of apps.

(05 Jul '11, 02:16) bloodpet

perfect answer.

I especially love that you're doing this with a single rule for any domain.

(06 Jul '11, 15:11) swiharta

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