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www or no-www? Yes you’re right, whether using www or not, (actually) they’re the same way to reach the domain name. Because today many of web servers allow the user to access whether www.domainname.com or domainname.com in the same source. But there’s also some severs that doesn’t allow this method. Check it bri.co.id out, it’s not the same with www.bri.co.id, while their domain name is same as bri.

World Wide Web
n. Abbr. WWW

• The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
• n : a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.

Many websites prefer to use www prefix (or subdomain) to access their content, as many as the website not prefer to use www (in other word: no-www or without www). In fact, several websites choose to forward traffic from domainname.com to www.domainname.com for branding reasons, and vice versa there’re some websites use redirect all traffic from www.domainname.com to domainname.com.

As the explanation above that several web server allow the user to access www or no-www in the same source, will impact the traffic will divide between the www host and the bare domain. The solution is we must specify whether want to use www or no-www so the traffic will focused.

If you prefer your domain name use www so your must forward your all traffic in one location, simply redirect your user to www.yourdomain.com using .htaccess file when they type only yourdomain.com on the browser address bar. Write this line to your .htaccess file:

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

Vice versa if you prefer no-www, then write the line below in the .htaccess file to redirect the traffic from www.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://yourdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

For this blog I use the no-www, how about you?

P.s. you also might visit no-www.org – website that strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To that end, this website make the modest proposal that website makers configure their main sites to be accessible by domain.com as well as www.domain.com.