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J 445 posts 862 karma points

Jan 04, 2016 @ 15:04

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Canonical URLs

Questions about runway and modules

Umbraco 6

Umbraco v6.

I have one Umbraco installation with two sites. Second site was added under the "Culture and Hostnames" options.

Under Site 1 Culture and Hostnames is empty but controlled by IIS. Under Site 2 Culture and Hostnames has http://site2.com

When a user navigates to http://site1.com they reach site 1.

When a user navigates to http://site2.com they reach site 2.

So all works as expected.

Is there anyway to add canonical domains so that

http://site2.com changes to http://www.site2.com

http://site1.com changes to http://www.site1.com

Note the www for each URL.

Is this possible to keep the functionality as is but with the changes mentioned above?

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Pradip 24 posts 116 karma points

Jan 05, 2016 @ 08:34

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Please refer the below link which help you to achieve the above goals :

http://www.wiliam.com.au/wiliam-blog/web-design-sydney-enforcing-a-canonical-domain-in-iis-for-seo-performance

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J 445 posts 862 karma points

Jan 05, 2016 @ 09:21

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Does that article apply to this issue? If i carried out those instructions in IIS wouldnt that redirect site1 and site2 to the one site that i set as the main site?

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Pradip 24 posts 116 karma points

Jan 05, 2016 @ 10:01

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Yes, you can apply it to this issue.

I think if you apply this rules then it will not redirect to http://site1.com. It will redirect you to http://www.site1.com.

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J 445 posts 862 karma points

Jan 05, 2016 @ 10:30

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What about site2? If add that rule what would happen if the user types in http://site2.com?

Remember there is 1 IIS site 1 Umbraco installation and 2 sites in this 1 installation which point to two different websites.

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Pradip 24 posts 116 karma points

Jan 05, 2016 @ 10:54

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You have to create a new rule for site2 like site1.

You can create a number of rules for one site.

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J 445 posts 862 karma points

Jan 05, 2016 @ 13:42

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What i did was add two canonical rules and got the error "Too many redirects"

rule 1 - selected the site, under URL Rewrite > Add rule, selected site 1 rule 2 - selected the same site, under URL Rewrite > Add rule, selected site 2

Any further thoughts?

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Pradip 24 posts 116 karma points

Jan 06, 2016 @ 09:03

Hi J,

You need to write the below two rules in the web.config file if you want to redirect site1.com to www.site1.com and site2.com to www.site2.com :

<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirectsite1.comtowww" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="*" />
    <conditions>
      <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1.com" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.site1.com/{R:0}" />
  </rule>

  <rule name="Redirectsite2.comtowww" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="*" />
    <conditions>
      <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site2.com" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.site2.com/{R:0}" />
  </rule>
 </rules>
</rewrite>

I have tested the above two rules on local site and its working fine for me.

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J 445 posts 862 karma points

Jan 08, 2016 @ 09:49

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Thank you - this did the trick

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Jonathan Maurer 5 posts 72 karma points

Oct 11, 2017 @ 14:36

This can be simplified to:

<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="sitetowww" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="*" />
    <conditions>
      <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="(site2.com|site1.com)" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.{C:1}/{R:0}" />
  </rule>
 </rules>
</rewrite>

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