[UPHPU] httpd.conf RedirectPermanent

[Justin Hileman]

Brandon Stout wrote:
>
> I also have a couple of personal reasons for redirecting in general,
> whatever the method:
>
>   * It's my private retribution to people who don't listen.  If I say
> 'mscis.org', I mean 'mscis.org', not 'www.mscis.org'.  People who type
> the www in front get the www taken away.  The only improvement would be
> for a voice recording to say "did I say to put 'www' in front?  Let me
> fix it for you".
>   * People should lose the www in front of all domains.  The fact that
> they are asking for the domain on port 80 or 443 means they are seeking
> for web content.  You don't need the www to tell the server to give web
> content.  Perhaps a few cases call for enforcing the www, but I think
> most cases, you can throw them out.  Either way, I can force it to go
> the way I need it to go.

I redirect for all the same reasons. I generally do it in an .htaccess 
file, though, because that's easy to deploy on any site, in any hosting 
invronment--shared or not. Here's my weapon of choice:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   # Canonical domain name rewrite
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^justinhileman\.info$ [NC]
   RewriteRule (.*) http://justinhileman.info/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Note that this redirects *any* URL on the domain, not just the base URL. 
So if I tell someone to visit 'justinhileman.info/archive' and they 
decide to prepend a www, it will still strip it out. It does deliver 
everyone to their intended destination, unlike other variations I've 
seen, thanks to the $1 in the rewrite rule.

-- 
justin
http://justinhileman.com