Alexander Dalloz became daring and sent these 2.3K bytes, > 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 might be way off, but wouldn't it be quicker to use a vhost to redirect? -- 0 1 0 -> Aaron M Matteson - 0xD144B7FF 0 0 1 --> The worlds tallest dwarf, both kindly and helpful! 1 1 1 ---> Windows and Linux C++/C# Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, "The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://mindstorm.ath.cx:8080/index.php/Projects - Project Page http://mindstorm.ath.cx:8080/wordpress/ - My Opinionated Blog
