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Hi Hugo,

how to redirect mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com?
maybe I can use Joomla - URL toolkit for my vHosts?

Thanks in advance!

Hiawatha version: 7.3
Operating System: Debian 5.0

Create a virtual host for each hostname. Use the redirect URL toolkit option to redirect all requests to mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com. Something like this:

VirtualHost {
  Hostname = mydomain.com
  UseToolkit = redirect
  ...
}

VirtualHost {
  Hostname = www.mydomain.com
  ...
}

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = redirect
  Match ^/(.*) Redirect http://www.mydomain.com/$1
}

Please note: I have not tested the configuration above. It could contain some typo's.

a little bit extravagantly, but it works, thanks Hugo
Maybe there are shorter ways? Does nothing occur to you?

The shortest way is to simply use both hostnames in the same virtual host

VirtualHost {
  Hostname = www.mydomain.com, mydomain.com
  ...
}

Do you really care whether a user sees a hostname with or without www in his URL?

To me it would make no difference, but for the web search engine it is very important, you know Pagerank etc.

My experience is that it's not the case. It's very common that http://domain.com/ shows the same website as http://www.domain.com/. Search engines can handle those aliases well.

I have read in a report for search engine optimization that it is recommended redirect the Domains on www, all famous web pages also do this, just look Google eBay etc.

What you also could do is have one general redirect virtual host which redirects all domains to the www version.

VirtualHost {
  Hostname = mydomain.com, mywebsite.com, blabla.com
  ...
}

Use a script to redirect all requests.

<?php
  header("Location: http://www.".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
?>

Thank you Hugo, it is also redirected equally fast and requires less work

oops unfortunately, there is a problem in the last solution
if I give mydomain.com then I am redirected to www.mydomain.com, but if I give mydomain.com/images/test.png then gets 404 - not found

Use the following UrlToolkit for the redirect virtual host:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = redirect
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

This redirects all requests to index.php, which will redirect to the www version of the hostname.

Indeed, the first solution is more extravagantly, but it's better. The first solution redirect everything perfect, I remain in the first solution.
Thanks Hugo your Support is great!