What if I want to redirect www to root?
I added this feature for you. It will work as soon as I finish coding tests for it.
Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO
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Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO
#22You're selling a redirect rule...? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Yes, hosted on geo-redundant servers, in excellent data centers, monitored 24/7. You can't use a CNAME record for your root domain. This is a problem for me and lots of folks who run their web servers behind Amazon Elastic Load Balancers or other CNAME-based services. RootRedirect solves the problem nicely.
This is a problem for me and lots of folks who run their web servers behind Amazon Elastic Load Balancers
Amazon Route 53 solves this problem with an alias record, though your service may be easier to use or cheaper than what Amazon offers.
Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO
#23My concern here is that you're selling a service through FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt).
Search engines penalize sites with the same content on their root and www domains. They treat the domains as separate sites with duplicate content and flag them as spam. Use RootRedirect.com to avoid this penalty and improve your site's SEO ranking.
There's no penalty, you're just forcing search engines to pick one version and potentially splitting the back-link equity that would occur if both www/no-ww resolve to a single location. Duplicate content should not be associate with spam either, since a VERY large majority of enterprise sites have this issue.
Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO
#24What if I want to redirect www to root?
This feature is now live. If you point your www address to RootRedirect, visitors will be redirected to your root domain.
I added this for you, Ben. Please sign up! :D
Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO
#25You're selling a redirect rule...? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Yes, hosted on geo-redundant servers, in excellent data centers, monitored 24/7. You can't use a CNAME record for your root domain. This is a problem for me and lots of folks who run their web servers behind Amazon Elastic Load Balancers or other CNAME-based services. RootRedirect solves the problem nicely.
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Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO
#26You're selling a redirect rule...? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Yes, hosted on geo-redundant servers, in excellent data centers, monitored 24/7. You can't use a CNAME record for your root domain. This is a problem for me and lots of folks who run their web servers behind Amazon Elastic Load Balancers or other CNAME-based services. RootRedirect solves the problem nicely.
Actually we can, but that's a professional DNS service that includes other stuff besides DNS. But when we used CNAME for the root, some email services stopped working. They were trying to send the email to the CNAME resolved address which was the ELB itself. Did you find a solution for that?