ed
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This is something I really should know, but what's the best way to force one domain name over other alias domain names on a website. I've got three for my portfolio, but I'd like to 301 any requests made by the alias domain names to the main one.
I know I could do this with .htaccess, but for ease, does anyone know of a Wordpress plugin that could perhaps do it? Or, would I even be better off setting up the alias domains as redirects at the DNS level instead?
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Sam
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I think on my domains I do this at registrar level (in my case, domainmonster.com).
You can also do this in cPanel IIRC.
[Edited on 18-05-2011 by Sam]
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ENB
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Wordpress plugin? Guessing you don't have access to the server?
What kind of server is it? Apache, IIS, light-httpd?
Presumably you're trying to say produce a 301 (permanent redirect) from subsite.com to mainsite.com?
I know it's a single line in Apache; which you can add in .htaccess (although it's slower than in the main httpd.conf, but you probably don't have much choice there).
Alternatively just set up a CNAME for subsite.com to point to mainsite.com.
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ed
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It's my server, I've got complete access to it - just wanted a plugin as it would be easier.
The .htaccess stuff seems to mess up my configuration as I'm running WP Super Cache.
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Sam
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ed
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I think the CNAME way would work best actually.
Forgot to say, it's Apache running on Ubuntu with all the usuals.
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Ian
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I think CNAME will introduce duplicate content on both domains instead of re-writing the address to the preferred site.
I would use a PHP header() call for this, generally the most simple to set up.
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ed
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On Ian's advice, I've found a Wordpress plugin that forces www at the beginning of your URL's. I'll modify that to force my preferred domain name via a 301.
It's a pain you have to go down the custom plugin route, but I haven't found anything that'll do this for Wordpress - maybe I should make it good and publish it 
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Sam
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I've made about three WordPress plugins purely because there wasn't anything better suited to my requirements at the time, and I decided to release them on wordpress.org.
One of them has had over 12k downloads! 
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ed
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You seem to be able to stick donate buttons and adverts into the backend if you were really desperate!
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Ian
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If I've got this right and you have three domains and they each point to different folders in the hosting, have your Wordpress install in one folder and in the others, make a file named index.php and put in:
<?php
header('Location: http://www.yourothersite.com/');
?>
You don't need plugin for that?
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ENB
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How does a CNAME duplicate content?
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