Redirecting from WWW.

[tomdawson]

Hi guys,

Wondering if anyone knows of a way to redirect a domain name from http://www.yourdomain.com to just http://yourdomain.com

I'm pretty sure there's a way to go from http://yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com using mod_rewrite (or is it just a redirect in .htaccess?)

Gah, I'm not sure.

If anyone has any idea how to achieve this with apache that'd be great.

I'm planning on making my own version of tinyurl.com - just as a bit of fun really, and it'd be nice to make sure the domain is a short is possible, preferably without the www.

Cheers,
Tom.

[mrwITch]

Can't you just do that with a CName entry in your DNS configuration ??

There may be issues with what you've actually registered tho'

[webman]

This should do it:

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

[tomdawson]

I'm using a shared hosting company for now, it's just easier.

They always auto-configure every domain to have thedomain.com and WWW.thedomain.com pointing to the webspace.

Besides I don't see how I could redirect a CNAME, surely is just points at the IP address or another CNAME, it won't actually do any redirecting.

I'd like the URL to actually change. When someone accesses http://www.thisdomain.com I want it to redirect to http://thisdomain.com so that it's nice and short when people copy the address.

[tomdawson]

This should do it:

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

Gah, posted again just after you'd replied, webman.

Spot on, you're a star

I knew it could be done, just not sure about the exact code for the .htaccess file.

Thankyou!

[kesomir]

It's considerably faster / lower overhead to put the rewrite code in the httpd.conf file rather than using .htacess files (unless this isn't an option ofv)

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html

[tomdawson]

It's considerably faster / lower overhead to put the rewrite code in the httpd.conf file rather than using .htacess files (unless this isn't an option ofv)

Apache Tutorial: .htaccess files

Definitely, and I have before, but again I'm planning to run this on shared hosting at the moment so .htaccess is my only choice. Good spot though

[fernt]

This is good practice for all websites - it amazes me how many bring up a 404 (or, even worse, admin login screens) when you omit a www, and less literate users are likely to just assume that the site is down or doesn't exist.