leading www in url

Hello,

I learned that a website need to answer on both request like:
www.domain.com
or
domain.com

while checking the indexed pages in Google I noticed that there are several indexed (double) pages without the leadding www.

my question is do I need to rewrite the URL ?

If yes, is this a normal situation?

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I allways do that (visit this site without www to see )

It worths to do permanent redirects when there are links to both urls.

I allways do that (visit this site without www to see )

It worths to do permanent redirects when there are links to both urls.

I makes sense, but why is this not a default configuration on all apache webservers?

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I allways do that (visit this site without www to see )

It worths to do permanent redirects when there are links to both urls.

I makes sense, but why is this not a default configuration on all apache webservers?

I guess because the Apache team doesn't care about SEO

yes, this people care more about servers then internet ....

about the rule I thought that this one should work:

Code:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^www\.finalwebsites\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)    http://www.finalwebsites.com/ [R=301,L]

but it doesn't

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I am out of office right now, so I can't see any example, but I think the right should be something like :

Code:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^\.finalwebsites\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)    http://www.finalwebsites.com/ [R=301,L]

or if you prefer the php way :

Code:

<?php
if ( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'www.finalwebsites.com'  )
 header (.....

I think your condition is the simple solution, hehe

a little bit different:

Code:

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

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