[Tip] Forcing with or without www. in URL

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Floris

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Think twice before running your site. Do you want to have the www. part included, or not?

Force remove www. from url:
Code: 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.xenfans\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://xenfans.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Force www. to the url:
Code: 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xenfans\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.xenfans.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Add either of the above code to your .htaccess file - inside the xenforo block, just after:
Code: 
RewriteEngine On
 
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Mikey said:
It's really personal preference...
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Yes, but highly motivated no-www.org :D

Personally I think it looks cluttered, we type in the browser: xenfans.com
So http and www is obsolete in my book.

I've gone ahead a few years ago by deciding to force remove www. prefix from the domains I run.
And perm 301 redirect all my alias domains to the main domain.
I also decided on force removing the index.php (which xenforo does basically if you use friendly urls)

so

http://www.wetalknation.net/index.php

ends up as

http://wetalknation.net/
 
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Chrome now removes http:// from the visible url anyway, and fades out www. and everything after the tld so that the only thing in the url bar which is 'black' font is the site address itself.
 
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Mikey said:
Chrome now removes http:// from the visible url anyway, and fades out www. and everything after the tld so that the only thing in the url bar which is 'black' font is the site address itself.
Click to expand...
quite annoying when you copy paste sites to friends :p
 
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On a side note: If you run a sizable site, remember that cookies served from .domain.com are sent with EVERY SINGLE HTTP REQUEST. If you have a large number of subdomains, you may want to consider redirect all main traffic TO www so that you can serve, say, images, from another subdomain without all the cookie traffic.
 
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Hey floris,

Thank you for the tip, I personally use some reversed logic and say

Code: 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www\.xenfans\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.xenfans.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This way it will catch all possible differences, be it parked domains' or additional subdomain's etc...
 
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