redirect? opinions please

Hello,

Not sure if this is a good thing to do. The thought came from a thread
from this ng a little while ago.

Basically, it strips the 'www' from the entered url.

<The_Code_I_Talk_Of>
if (substr($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"],0, 3) == 'www'){
header("Location: http://" . substr($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"],4) .
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
}
</The_Code_I_Talk_Of>


A reason to do this is the ensure that if someone was to place a link
or bookmark to this particular site, then they would be more likely to
'copy/paste' the "http://example.com" instead of the
"http://www.example.com".

One reason for this, is that I would rather that the domain name
"example.com" not compete with the subdomain "www.example.com" in
search engines. Is this just silly to think that this is an issue
anyway?

Any thoughts please?

Thanks

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> Writing in news:alt.www.webmaster
> From the safety of the The Deep cafeteria
> Disco Octopus <discooctopus@yahoo.com> said:
>
>> Hello,
>
> How do you do?
>
>> Not sure if this is a good thing to do. The thought came from a thread
>> from this ng a little while ago.
>>
>> Basically, it strips the 'www' from the entered url.
>>
>> <The_Code_I_Talk_Of>
>> if (substr($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"],0, 3) == 'www'){
>
> suggestion: change that to compare the 1st 4 chars to 'www.'
>

Yep. good point. ta.


>>
>> Any thoughts please?
>
>
> As for the implementation - I'd rather see that done in the (web) server
> configuration, but I guess you'd need shell/root access to set that.

Well, I do have shell access, but I do not have admin access to the
servers conf file..... however, I do have my .htaccess files that I can
play with. Do you know what the syntax would be to effect this in
..htaccess?

Thanks

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"Disco Octopus" <discooctopus@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, I do have shell access, but I do not have admin access to the
> servers conf file..... however, I do have my .htaccess files that I
> can play with. Do you know what the syntax would be to effect this in
> .htaccess?

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