301 - Redirect - How To?

[I am Nick]

I might be penalized from Google for duplicated content. All my webpages are indexed in duplicate by G, ie. http://index.html and http://www.index.html. The suggestions given to me is to do a 301 redirect for the one without "www" to the one with it. The Google should sooner or later pick it up... I have been told...

The webpage concerned is www.plushtoys4you.com

I did not find this 301 page among the common error pages, any suggestions in how to do?

Nick -

 

[vandal]

Hi there,

edit the httpd.conf that has to do with your domain: normally /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/<username>/httpd.conf

(make a copy of this first before you start editing)

<VirtualHost plushtoys4you.com>
Redirect / http://www.plustoys4you.com/
CustomLog logs/redir "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""
</VirtualHost>

you may have to take out the serveralias for the domain

look for the line:

ServerAlias www.plushtoys4you.com plushtoys4you.com

and remove plushtoys4you.com and leave the www.plushtoys4you.com

that should do it, and if it doesn't work restore it from your the copy you just made.

van

 

[I am Nick]

Hi Van,

I will try as per your suggestions. Hopefully my admin will do it for me... Thanks a lot!

Nick