Redirect sub domain to domain in .htaccessU

[rasmusbang]

Hi all,

(Total newbie with fourth post of the last 7 days askin' for help!...sorry!)

I've discovered that we have a lot of URLs indexed with for example:

http://test.betxpert.com/some-odd-url

This gives me duplicate content in the search engines. I have searched the web and i can not find a solution fore redirecting http://test.betxpert.com/some-odd-url to http://www.betxpert.com/some-odd-url. Can anyone help me what to write in the .htaccess file?

Best regards,

Rasmus

[rasmusbang]

I managed to fix this, just wanted to post the solution.

For redirecting traffic without "www." to "www.":

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

For redirecting "test." pages to "www." pages:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test.domain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Add these lines to .htaccess and all is well

[rasmusbang]

Actually, I don't use the subdomain. For some reason we have it on the server. Along with odds.betxpert.com. Again we do not use them.

What would be the best solution?

a) Redirect 301 from the sub to the main domain

b) Simply tell Google through the robots.txt that they are not to index the pages for the subdomains.

As it is now the sub adresses are competitors to the main pages? So I need to lose them?

What would happen if i simply remove the subdomains from the server such that google gets errors? That would be a problem right?

[KeriMorgret]

The greater question is..do you even want the test subdomain indexed? If that's there for you testing stuff in development, then redirecting is going to mean that you can't test anything.

If that subdomain shouldn't be in the SERPs at all, what about putting a robots.txt on it to exclude it from being indexed, then go verify the subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools where you can then remove the entire subdomain from the index?