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I have a client with multiple locations throughout the US. They are currently using different 800 numbers on their site for their different locations. As they try to optimize their local presence but submitting to local directories, we are trying to determine two things:

1. Does having a local number reroute to an 800 number devalue the significance of it being a local number (I've never heard of this, but someone told them it did)

2. Locality and consistency are important. Assuming they can't remove the 800 numbers from the site, are they better off keeping the 800 numbers on their site and using local numbers every else online OR just using the 800 numbers for all of their local listings?

Hi Jassy,

Thanks for your response. I was already using +followsymlinks.

Just tried your code and it did the trick!

Thanks a bunch

I use the same rewrite code on every site to consolidate the non-www and www versions.

All sites in Joomla, linux hosting. Code is as follows:

RewriteEngine On

rewritecond %{http_host} ^site.com/

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

Immediately following this code, I also rewrite /index.php to /.

Thing is, I can get index.php to rewrite correctly but the non-www won't rewrite to www.

I use the same code on every site but for some reason it's not working here.

Are there common issues that interfere with rewriting a non-www to www in htaccess that could be interfering with the code I'm using above?