Why Redirect Non-www URLs to www?
- Consistency: It guarantees a constant URL structure for your website. Visitors to your site will always see the same URL version, whether they enter “example.com” or “www.example.com”. This uniformity can improve branding and user experience.
- Canonicalization: You can create a canonical version of your domain by redirecting non-www URLs to www. Search engines such as Google prefer a single canonical version of a website to prevent indexing duplicate content. To consolidate, redirect non-www to www or vice versa.
- Analytics and Tracking: Redirecting all traffic to a single version of your site makes tracking and analytics easier. You may get precise statistics on your website’s performance without having to reconcile data from different versions of the same page.
- Security: It can help to avoid cookie-related security issues. Cookies created on the non-www version of your domain may be inaccessible from the www version, and vice versa. By redirecting all visitors to a single version, you can ensure that cookies are uniformly managed and accessible across your site.
- Compatibility: Some services, scripts, and third-party tools may expect or need URLs to include the www prefix. Redirecting non-www URLs to www enables interoperability with such services while also avoiding potential integration difficulties.
We will discuss how to Redirect Non-www URLs to www:
Table of Content
- hPanel
- cPanel
- Cloudflare
- NGINX
- Apache
How to Redirect Non-www to www URLs ?
Redirecting non-www to www URLs entails ensuring that when people access your website via a URL without the “www” prefix (e.g., `example.com`), they are automatically routed to the version with the “www” prefix (`www.example.com`). This redirection is often used to maintain a consistent URL structure. It can be accomplished via server-side configuration (an Apache.`htaccess`file or Nginx configuration) or DNS settings provided by your domain registrar or DNS provider.