Or any other search engine for that matter. http://yourwebsite.com and http://www.yourwebsite.com may actually be treated as two different websites. Test them in your web browser (obviously substituting yourwebsite for your own site name). Do both show up? If they do then you may have a problem, but fortunately one that is easy to fix.


Add the following lines of code to your root directory .htaccess file, leaving out the RewriteEngine On part if it already exists.

RewriteEngine On

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

RewriteEngine On

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

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written by Steven , June 27, 2008

This guide is for Linux servers running Apache. www.webconfs.com also has information on 301 redirects for other platforms.

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