Since MODx's website deprecates www., why not use htaccess rule to redirect?

I stumbled across this website, and noticed that the website didn’t route people to the no-www page, even though it seems like it default to the version w/out it.

Why not go all the way and use a .htaccess rule to reroute traffic to the non-www address?

This is available in the standard MODx htaccess file:

# Rewrite www.domain.com -> domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# or for the opposite domain.com -> www.domain.com use the following
# >>> DO NOT USE BOTH THE ABOVE AND BELOW <<<
#
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Quote from: dev_cw at Mar 16, 2008, 06:25 AM

This is available in the standard MODx htaccess file:

# Rewrite www.domain.com -> domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# or for the opposite domain.com -> www.domain.com use the following
# >>> DO NOT USE BOTH THE ABOVE AND BELOW <<<
#
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Yeah, I know that. I was saying, since modxcms.com is using the non-www address, why not redirect all traffic to the non-www address?

Ohhhhhhhhh

Does it matter?

Quote from: sottwell at Mar 16, 2008, 10:21 AM

Does it matter?

It’s more of "show off thing" than anything, but I’d guess it might help w/ search engines.

Quote from: sottwell at Mar 16, 2008, 10:21 AM

Does it matter?

Some people are starting to promote deprecating the www. I think their argument is pretty convincing, as long as www still works as usual (four more characters to type many times per day that do nothing). Never showing the www in the address bar might reinforce the idea that it’s unnecessary, and I guess it’s possible (although I think unlikely) that some search engines might not recognize that www.whatever.com/somepage.html is the same as whatever.com/somepage.html and thereby reduce your rankings.

The ultimate goal of the strict no-www folks would be to make it so www.modxcms.com didn’t work at all (Class C no-www compliance).

Bob

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 16, 2008, 03:33 PM

The ultimate goal of the strict no-www folks would be to make it so www.modxcms.com didn’t work at all (Class C no-www compliance).

Bob

IMO, Class B is fine for most sites, in the rare case that someone would have an issue with a site NOT having www. allowed.