301 Redirect

lostprophetsie

Hi I have a site hosted on a shared windows hosting package and I wanted to use a 301 redirect from the non www. version to the www. version for better SEO. I have tried using mod rewrite but from more research it seems this will only work on Apache servers, am I right with this? I also contacted the support for my hosting which wasn't very pleasant, I was told including mod rewrite in my .htaccess should work but it doesn't seem to. Can anyone see where I am going wrong, the code I have tried in my .htaccess has all been from tutorials online.

Thanks, and Merry Xmas:)

DJB

This might be of some help to you:

http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/non-www-301-redirect-on-iis/

louie

301 using htaccess
[php]
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]
# redirect all other domains to domain.ie
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.ie
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.ie/$1 [R=301,L,NC]
#redirect index.php or htm to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ .*/index\.(htm|html|php)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(htm|html|php)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
[/php]
if that doesn't work for any reasons, you can try using php
[php]
$host = $_SERVER;
if(!stristr($host,"www.")){
header("Location: http://www." . $host,true,301);
exit();
}
[/php]

Add the above code at the top of every page on your website (a common include file)

mneylon

Does your host have ISAPI rewrite available?

DJB

@louie @blacknight - what are we like? Christmas day and all!

ISAPI Rewrite is the best option if your host has it but not all hosts have it on shared windows servers. I think blacknight provide it on theres, am I right?

louie

@DJB - Just keeping an eye on things and this tread came into my RSS notice...

lostprophetsie

louie wrote: »

@DJB - Just keeping an eye on things and this tread came into my RSS notice...

Yeah sorry guys with it being Xmas day and all your help has really been appreciated. I had a look at ISAPI rewrite but couldnt find anything from my hosting provider I might open a ticket with them and see what they have. Once again thank you very much louie, DJB and blacknight, I will have a look at all the options in the next few days, gonna leave it off for today
Thanks again and Merry Xmas.

mneylon

DJB wrote: »

I think blacknight provide it on theres, am I right?

Yeah we do :P

DJB

Well, there you go lostprophetsie, if your hosting provider doesn't have it, have a look at moving to Blacknight.

If you need help setting it up, let me know, I work with isapi rewrite on my iis server all the time and I've a small library of code built up.

Rgds, Dave