How to 301 redirect www to root?

Server Config
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Hello!
I can’t beleive how painfully difficult it is to find a simple 2-liner answer to a simple question:

I need to redirect requests that come to www.mydomain.com to mydomain.com

I am sure there is a simple 1-3 lines of code in httpd.conf that can do that. Instead when Googling for the answer, I keep seeing a long essays about 301 redirects but no real-world workable solution!
It’s like everyone wants to write a long article about it, probably for seo purposes but nobody wants to just say, here, this is how you do it:… done!

Can someone please just tell me the what to add to httpd.conf

my new site is http://www.qod.tw

I don’t want people to use the www part, so all traffic should be redirected to the http://qod.tw

Thank you.

2

The setting to do that redirection should be found in your Host Control Panel.

I am with DreamHost so I got the option. Check to see if you got it too.

3

This starting to be funny. All lectures but no real answers. What If I don’t have a control panel? Then what?

4

http://vision-media.ca/resources/seo/301-redirect-with-no-www-using-htaccess

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I tried this one
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

but then when someone what typing www.qod.tw
it was redirecting to www.qod.tw//
It was adding an extra / at the end
and when typing www.qod.tw/make
it was redirecting to http://qod.tw//make
another extra slash.

I just changed that rule to
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://qod.tw$1 [R=301,L]

So now it seems to be working.

6

lamp,

Did you bother to look at the sticky threads? Did you bother to look at the tutorial linked in my signature? The code is there! Sorry, I get SO frustrated at the lack of “minimal effort” by posters asking simple questions.

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

WILL, as you discovered, redirect to http://qod.tw//. While

WILL give you the answer you want (on Apache 2.x), it’s still not (universally) correct.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.god\\.tw$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://god.tw%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

WILL take care of the problem MOST EFFICIENTLY on either version of Apache.

Regards,

DK