Joomla redirect error

[Sean Clement]

Put the following lines within your '.htaccess' file.

Add it before the '## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.' section starts.

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

[Sean Clement]

Yes, within your FTP program you will either be able to download the file to your machine and edit it or there may be an option to 'View/Edit' your '.htaccess' file.

Add the below code to your '.htaccess' file as follows:

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## Begin - Custom redirects
#
# If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to
# www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those
# redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.
#
## End - Custom redirects

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

When a visitor visits your website with the 'www', they will automatically get redirected to your website within the 'www'.

[Sean Clement]

When 'Google' next crawls your website it will recognize that the redirect is in place and will make changes accordingly, you don't need to worry about it.

When 'Google' next does a PR update (the update that is visible to us via a add-on) the 'non-www' version will get the same (if not more) PR rank as the previous 'www' version.