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    4. We are redirecting http and non www versions of our website. Should all versions http (non www version and www version) and https (non www version) should just have 1 redirect to the https www version?

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    We are redirecting http and non www versions of our website. Should all versions http (non www version and www version) and https (non www version) should just have 1 redirect to the https www version?

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    • Caffeine_Marketing
      Caffeine_Marketing Subscriber last edited by

      We are redirecting http and non www versions of our website. Should all versions http (non www version and www version) and https (non www version) should just have 1 redirect to the https www version?

      Thant way all forms of the website are pointing to one version?

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      • BlueprintMarketing
        BlueprintMarketing @Caffeine_Marketing last edited by

        I am happy I could be of help please let me know if there's anything else I can be of assistance with?

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        • BlueprintMarketing
          BlueprintMarketing @Caffeine_Marketing last edited by

          PS I will run a crawl to check

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          • BlueprintMarketing
            BlueprintMarketing @Caffeine_Marketing last edited by

            It is fine to 301 redirect to** "/"** you need to pick forward slash "/" or no forward slash.

            • SEE:
            • https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html
            • https://www.seroundtable.com/google-trailing-slashes-url-24943.html

            You should force HTTPS

            • http://cardiff.co.uk 301's to http://www.cardiff.co.uk/
            • See: https://i.imgur.com/fg34sXR.png
            • You should add https
            • https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up
            • or
            • https://www.rapidtables.com/web/tools/redirect-generator.html

            Add a SSL cert I would just add cloudflare.com (if you want fast & easy also Free)

            • https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/204144518
            • https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172286-Configuring-URL-forwarding-or-redirects-with-Cloudflare-Page-Rules

            When configuring Page Rules, the Always use HTTPS action is the simplest method to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.  You can also use the Forwarding URL action with a 301 redirect if you need to redirect to another subdomain in addition to forcing HTTPS. For example, a Page Rule match for

            **_http://_cardiff.co.uk_/*_**
            

            with a _Forwarding URL _of

            **_https://www.cardiff.co.uk/$1_**
            

            https://www.cardiff.co.uk/

            ASP.NET

            or ASP.NET

            <%@ Language="VBScript" %>
            <%
            ' ASP permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com
            Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
            Response.AddHeader "Location", "https://www.cardiff.co.uk/"
            Response.End
            %>

            Redirect entire domain from HTTP to HTTPS

            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
            

            Redirect entire domain from non-www to www and HTTP to HTTPS

            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
            RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
            RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
            

            Hope this helps,

            Tom

            fg34sXR.png

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            • Caffeine_Marketing
              Caffeine_Marketing Subscriber last edited by

              Thank you for the advice it is very useful.

              In GWT we are also showing redirects on all pages from the non / page to the / page

              ie cardiff.co.uk redirects to  cardiff.co.uk/

              is this OK?

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              • BlueprintMarketing
                BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                if you talking about the domain

                you should 301 redirect each of the 3 of 4 different URLs to the one you want to be the primary domain that is using https

                This is a great guide

                https://ahrefs.com/blog/301-redirects/

                You can always use CloudFlare as free & easy fix.

                If you want to use HSTS preload or just HSTS

                Test your 301 setup using

                https://hstspreload.org/?domain=example.com

                If you are using https://www.  as the primary

                See you must force http to https and the HTTP://www

                Must redirect to the https:// bare domain so that means two redirects.

                Error: No redirect from HTTPhttp://example.com does not redirect to https://example.com.

                Hope this helps,

                Tom

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                • Xiano
                  Xiano Subscriber last edited by

                  Ideally, yes.

                  However, it's not likely to have a massive impact if you do have a redirect chain first to www and then to https.

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