Duplicate Page Title
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First i had a problem with duplicate title errors, almost every page i had was double because my website linked to both www.funky-lama.com and funky-lama.com
I changed this by adding a code to htaccess to redirect everything to www.funky-lama.com, but now my website was crawled again and the errors were actually doubled.
all my pages now have duplicate title errors cause of pages like this
www.funky-lama.com/160-confetti-gitaar.html funky-lama.com/160-confetti-gitaar.html
www.funky-lama.com/1_present-time funky-lama.com/1_present-time
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thank you
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Go to web-snifer.net Add http://funky-lama.com And see if the status code is 301 and redirecting to http://www.funky-lama.com I checked it now and the redirection is correct
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how can i test if it works?
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If you added this RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^funky-lama.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.funky-lama.com/$1 [L,R=301]
try to added it after "RewriteEngine on"
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This is the entire code in the htaccess
.htaccess automaticaly generated by PrestaShop e-commerce open-source solution# WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE MANUALLY. IF NECESSARY, ADD YOUR SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION WITH THE HTACCESS GENERATOR IN BACK OFFICE# http://www.prestashop.com - http://www.prestashop.com/forums order allow,denydeny from 93.174.93.5allow from all RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^funky-lama.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.funky-lama.com/$1 [L,R=301]# URL rewriting module activationRewriteEngine on # URL rewriting rulesRewriteRule ^api/?(.)$ /webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)-([a-z0-9]+)(-[_a-zA-Z0-9-])/[_a-zA-Z0-9-].jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2$3.jpg [L]RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/[_a-zA-Z0-9-].jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2.jpg [L]RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)(-[_a-zA-Z0-9-])/[a-zA-Z0-9-].jpg$ /img/c/$1$2.jpg [L]RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-[a-zA-Z0-9-].html /product.php?id_product=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-[a-zA-Z0-9-]* /category.php?id_category=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z0-9-]/([0-9]+)-[a-zA-Z0-9-].html /product.php?id_product=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)__([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) /supplier.php?id_supplier=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)([a-zA-Z0-9-]) /manufacturer.php?id_manufacturer=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^content/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]) /cms.php?id_cms=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^content/category/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]) /cms.php?id_cms_category=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([a-zA-Z0-9-])/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]).html /product.php?id_product=$3&isolang=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]).html /product.php?id_product=$2&isolang=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) /category.php?id_category=$2&isolang=$1 [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^page-not-found$ /404.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^address$ /address.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^addresses$ /addresses.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^authentication$ /authentication.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^best-sales$ /best-sales.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^cart$ /cart.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact-form.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^discount$ /discount.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^guest-tracking$ /guest-tracking.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^order-history$ /history.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^identity$ /identity.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^manufacturers$ /manufacturer.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^my-account$ /my-account.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^new-products$ /new-products.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^order$ /order.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^order-follow$ /order-follow.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^quick-order$ /order-opc.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^order-slip$ /order-slip.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^password-recovery$ /password.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^prices-drop$ /prices-drop.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^search$ /search.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^sitemap$ /sitemap.php [QSA,L]RewriteRule ^supplier$ /supplier.php [QSA,L] # Catch 404 errorsErrorDocument 404 /404.php ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
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As Wissam Dandan said, your redirection seems to be not working fine. To redirect to the WWW version, use this instead:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^funky-lama.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.funky-lama.com/$1 [L,R=301]This should resolve the issue.
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I did a header check on funky-lama.com and its showing a 200 OK . So there is no redirection to the www version.
Please make sure the Code in htaccess is right.
you can paste it here so we can see where the fault is.
Thank you
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