Getting rid of the 'www' prefix
09 Jul, 06
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You may or may not have heard about the no-www movement. All my sites have always been reachable with and without the www prefix, and I personally never use the www prefix if I can avoid it. I won’t get into the details of why it is a bad idea, but consider this: no one calls the web ‘WWW’ anymore, and this ‘abbreviation’ is a lot longer than the expansion (‘double-you double-you double-you’ vs ‘world wide web’). If anything, the prefix should be ‘web’.
Starting today, I’m having all my domains permanently redirect to the non-www version of the hostname.
Here’s a simple mod_rewrite recipe that should work for any domain:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L,NS]
Put it inside a a <Location "/"> block in the appropriate VirtualHost block, or inside.htaccess in the document root of your site (it doesn’t seem to work in a VirtualHost block in the server config, any ideas why?).
It’s like magic.
