www v. no www

I did this as well and set preferred URL to non www in GWT.

Originally Posted by briansol

Code:

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

Originally Posted by bernard

Brian, your code would preclude you from using any subdomains on your site (like forums.domain.com, blog.domain.com, etc.), correct?

Originally Posted by Shadab

Nope. Sub-Domains won't be affected by this.

Ummm, I have a slight problem. I implemented the Rewrite rules as posted by Brian and now my forum subdomain does not work. Instead of going to forum.australianspeedway.com it goes to australianspeedway.com/forum.

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong and how to restore my forum subdomain back again? I have had "forum." for years and want to keep it as Google has been indexing it for years.

I guess this is the first fopar in my road to SEO, lucky I didn't do it while I have vbSEO, I am just in preparatory stage!

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
Bruce

What is the exact rule you implemented?

In your case, it should be:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^forum\.australianspeedway\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://forum.australianspeedway.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Well, I changed it back to ^www.australianseedway.com and the "forum." subdomain returned. Can't quite understand why given the comments above though....

Cheers
Bruce

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

What is the exact rule you implemented?

In your case, it should be:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^forum\.australianspeedway\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://forum.australianspeedway.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Hi Kieth

I used the one Brian posted as it was previously forcing www. All I wanted to do was remove the www. so I would have australianspeedway.com AND forum.australianspeedway.com but the change didn't work. I then changed it to the version posted by JohnnyBGood and everything returned

Cheers
Bruce