Hi there,

is there a way to build canonical URLs like WordPress does? WordPress automatically redirects http://domain.tld to http://www.domain.tld and I would like bbPress to do so too.

This is needed to prevent duplicate content on your site.

kind regards

Tom

[@fernandot Participant 15 years, 3 months ago]

You may do it by .htaccess … 

From www to no-www

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.myforums.com.com

RewriteRule (.*) myforums.com/$1 [R=301,L]

and the opposite … 

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myforums.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myforums.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[@tomcraft1980 Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Ahhh…. this worked for me:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]

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

Thx for the hint!

kind regards

Tom

[@finalwebsites Participant 15 years, 3 months ago]

how about canonical links like suggested by Google?

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html