On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:23:34PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 20:23:34 +0200 > From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [OT] webserver ? > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Am Mo, den 03.05.2004 schrieb Michael Weiner um 19:31: > > > I have a rather large domain i am responsible for running a webserver, > > and in an effort to improve the site's rankings in search engines, a > > consulting firm has suggested some interesting changes to the way the > > webserver operates. Their first suggestion which i am struggling with is > > to take all requests to http://w.blah, http://ww.blah and send a 301 > > redirect back to the user to http://www.blah. Not being an apache > > rewrite module expert, i thought i would throw the question out to the > > community at large and see what suggestions might arise. > > I don't know how such a redirect would influence search engine ranking, > but using mod_rewrite would looks like: > > RewriteEngine on > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ > RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301] > > (I hope it will survive line wrapping, above instructions are 4 lines) > > See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html for further details. I think, for the rewrite to trigger you also need a DNS entry or your web server will never see the request to act on it. Try to see if the firm giving you the suggestion follows their own advice. ;-) if not ask them why not. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
