Remove www Subdomain
It seems that more and more people are moving away from the inclusion of www in their url. SitePoint recently wrote about the subject, and this past February Roger Johansson also wrote an article on the topic. Roger’s article was really more about making sure your site works with our without www (I couldn’t agree more). You wouldn’t get any more from me than you could get from taking a look at the articles I’ve referenced, therefore I’ll just skip to the good stuff. In general I feel that the inclusion of www is just a waste of address bar space. For this blog I have decided to throw it to the dogs. If I remember correctly, “Removing the Ws from URLs“, an article from 2002, was a big help for me on my path to www enlightenment.
Removing WWW through VirtualHost
<VirtualHost ipaddress> ServerAdmin root@localhost ServerAdmin webmaster@blueatlas.com DocumentRoot /path/to/public_html/ ServerName jasonleveille.com ErrorLog /path/to/logs/jasonleveille.com/error_log TransferLog /path/to/logs/jasonleveille.com/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost ipaddress> ServerName jasonleveille.com ServerAlias www.jasonleveille.com ServerAlias ww.jasonleveille.com Redirect permanent / http://jasonleveille.com/ </VirtualHost>
Removing WWW through .htaccess
Perhaps you don’t have access to your VirtualHost block. Not a problem if your host/server/whatever allows you to override directives via .htaccess. This article on using .htaccess from Daring Fireball is a good reference regarding this topic.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourdomain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=Permanent]
May 5th, 2008 at 6:16 am
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