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RGL

01-17-2008, 07:58 AM

I've searched this site and some others on the net and have come up with what to do but not exactly where to put it. My companys web host has suggested we set up a 301 redirect from http://oursite.com to http://www.oursite.com. According to them, and what I've read, doing this should improve our search listing.

Question is where exactly do I put it? I'm assuming just after the <body> tag or should it be in the <head>...</head>. And does it have to go on every page or just the index?

Any ideas?

LeeU

01-17-2008, 04:08 PM

You would put it in a separate file in your root directory. The file will be called ".htaccess" w/o the quotes, and make sure you use the leading".". Place the code below in there:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oursite.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www\.oursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]