Hello All,

I customarily create a CNAME (www) for mysite.com when I create a new website.  Then I add that to the host header in IIS and set it as the alias in DNN, i.e., www.mysite.com

I also then add the raw mysite.com as a second host header and also add a second alias for mysite.com in DNN, all without the www.

It is not really a DNN question, but I hope you do not mind me asking here - how should I handle this? 

From an SEO and general good practice, should I just do a re-direct on the raw mysite.com to www.mysite.com.  If I do a re-direct, should I try to handle that with my Domain registrar or handle it myself in IIS ?  I think the way I do it is not correct, because I end up with two sets of URLs floating around.

Thanks for your advice,

 

Mark

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Mark Breen Ireland 1987 BMW R80 g/s

I typically do this on my sites using the friendlyurl provider from Ifinity (www.ifinity.com.au), it has an option there you can define the default alias for a Portal, and it will 301 redirect all other requests to that default alias, that way you can basically tell the search engines which format of the URL they should be using.

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