Redirection of a domain name using .htaccess

[alexs]

I'm looking for a way to redirect all requests of http://spinelli-group.com to http://www.spinelli- group.com (hosted on JaguarPC).

I want a "true redirect" so search engines will correct their indexes to the new address using the address with "www" only.
I have the problem that some people use the address without "www" and other with "www" adding more traffic to my website (because of double-caching of the same pages).

Please let me know if there is a way to configure the .htaccess file or other good solution.

Thanks, Alex

[alexs]

Please see the original post at
http://forums.jaguarpc.com/showthrea...&threadid=7952

[jason]

I think this will do what you want. It uses mod_rewrite, so you should check with support before doing this because I think they want to monitor people's use of mod_rewrite. It can cause a lot of problems if you don't know what yoou are doing...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)         http://www.domain.com:%{SERVER_PORT}/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)         http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

It should check the URL and if it does not use "www" it should do a permanent redirect (HTTP Code 301, the R=301 in the examples) to the www version of the smae url.

--Jason

[alexs]

Thanks very much Jason!!!
it's what i was looking for... i'll try this solution.

Bye, Alex