[OT] webserver ?

[Aaron Matteson]

Alexander Dalloz became daring and sent these 2.3K bytes,
> Am Mo, den 03.05.2004 schrieb Michael Weiner um 19:31:
> 
> > I have a rather large domain i am responsible for running a webserver,
> > and in an effort to improve the site's rankings in search engines, a
> > consulting firm has suggested some interesting changes to the way the
> > webserver operates. Their first suggestion which i am struggling with is
> > to take all requests to http://w.blah, http://ww.blah and send a 301
> > redirect back to the user to http://www.blah. Not being an apache
> > rewrite module expert, i thought i would throw the question out to the
> > community at large and see what suggestions might arise.
> 
> I don't know how such a redirect would influence search engine ranking,
> but using mod_rewrite would looks like:
> 
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.      [NC]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
> RewriteRule ^(.*)        http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1   [R=301]
> 
> (I hope it will survive line wrapping, above instructions are 4 lines)
> 
> See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html for further details.

I might be way off, but wouldn't it be quicker to use a vhost to
redirect?

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