non-www to www

[Morledge]

Hi,

The old Search Engine Optimization of problem of non-www links auto 301 redirecting to www.

I know this can easily be sorted on apache servers using .htaaccess.

I also have read that the best way to sort this in Windows-IIS, is to setup another website hosting in IIS Web Server and set the domain to that as non-www and then put a redirect to the www domain.

My question is, how will this affect plesk (if at all) will plesk see this as two website hostings or will it ignore one, or what???

Or is there a better way to do this that I have not found? The pages are all .html

Cheers

[flesso]

Follow thisn procedure to fix this problem:

Open inetmgr > Right Click on the RespectiveWebsite Hosting > Select 'Properties' > You Will Be Presented With a Main Options Panel, Where it Says the IP Address That The Sites uis Hosted on, Select 'Advanced' > You Will Be Presented With All IP Addresses The Web site hosting is Hoted On > Click 'Add' Down the Bottom of That Pane > Fill This Pane Out With the Following Options:

IP Addresss: The Default Shared IP (You Should Know This)
Port: 80
Hostname (Something Like That): website hosting.tld for without www., just add www. respectively if you want it to be www.

> Click OK & Apply Respectively

I hope that helps, some of the options may not be named correctly, but it should give you a good idea of how to do it.

[Morledge]

Thanks flesso, but if I understand your directions correctly then the outcome of this will be that if I type http://mydomain.com into the browser it will load my website hosting as normal.

What I want is, if I type in http://mydomain.com it performs a 301 redirect to http://www.mydomain.com/.

The purpose of this is so that if google sees a link to http://mydomain.com on an external website hosting it follows the redirect and counts it as a link to http://www.mydomain.com/. Rather then seeing them as two seperate links.

Hope this clears things up, and please let me know if I have mis-understood you solution.

As mentioned in my first post, will the solution in my first post affect plesk? If no-one is sure then I will just give it a shot and see what happens

Thanks

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by Morledge

The purpose of this is so that if google sees a link to http://mydomain.com on an external website hosting it follows the redirect and counts it as a link to http://www.mydomain.com/. Rather then seeing them as two seperate links.
Thanks

and what in case of http://yourdomain.com/abcadabca/support.html ?

301 will redirect everything to main page so you will loose indexing and backlinks of important internal pages. people use mod_rewrite rules to retain important valuation of internal pages.

[flesso]

Originally Posted by Morledge

Thanks flesso, but if I understand your directions correctly then the outcome of this will be that if I type http://mydomain.com into the browser it will load my website hosting as normal.

What I want is, if I type in http://mydomain.com it performs a 301 redirect to http://www.mydomain.com/.

The purpose of this is so that if google sees a link to http://mydomain.com on an external website hosting it follows the redirect and counts it as a link to http://www.mydomain.com/. Rather then seeing them as two seperate links.

Hope this clears things up, and please let me know if I have mis-understood you solution.

As mentioned in my first post, will the solution in my first post affect plesk? If no-one is sure then I will just give it a shot and see what happens

Thanks

From what I know about Windows, I think this can only be done using an ISAPI DLL, I've done this before in the past, I'll dig the link out for you and post it here within the next hour.

[flesso]

And....

The website hosting I got it from (www.iismods.com) has closed down since my last visit...

[paul]

As per google guideline If you have listed both versions of the site's URL in your account that will not going to affect the indexing of your website hosting as long as you have submitted a Sitemap for only one version.