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How to Force Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess

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<span style="color: #990000;">Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess</span></h2>
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For <b>SEO purposes</b> this is good practice to keep your website urls either with www or without www only. In this tutorial you will learn how to force redirect to <b>www</b> or non-www url only. 301 status code tells search engines that the page has permanently moved to a new location.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 34px;">Force Redirect to WWW or Non-WWW</span></div>
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Login to server with admin privileges and navigate to document root of your website. Now create a .htaccess file using one of below content as per your requirements.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Force non-www to www</span></h3>
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This will force url as www.example.com, this will always add www in url either you accessed it with or witout www.</div>
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Force www to non-www</span></h3>
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This will force url as example.com, this will always remove www from url, you either accessed it with or witout www.</div>
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enable .htaccess to Work</span></h2>
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Before using <b>.htaccess</b>, make sure your <b>.htaccess</b> is enabled to use in Apache. To enable this add following settings under your domains VirtualHost.</div>
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    <Directory "/home/user/public_html">
         Allowoverride all
    </Directory>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enable Apache Rewrite Module</span></h2>
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Also make sure Apache <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rewrite</a> module is enabled. If not use the following command to enable module.</div>
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How to Force Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess

Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess For SEO purposes this is good practice to keep your website urls either with www or without www only. In this tutorial you will learn how to force redirect to w…

29 Jan 2016