domain search not working

[Dillu]

Dear Sir,

 

I have create a form, in which person can search domain, that page goes toward domain registration search page.

 

when i write http://www.dmain.com/search'>http://www.dmain.com/search its goes to /billing/cart.php?a=add&domain=register

 

its works fine

 

BUT

 

if i write http://domain.com (exclude http://www.) then its goes to /billing/cart.php?a=add&domain=register and do not search any domain, only loading domain search , but dont show the result..

 

its only working for those customer who comes via www. not http://domain.com. how to solve this issue?

[tripler]

You have a larger issue of duplicate content.

 

You have a canonical naming issue because http://www.domain and domain.com, are often treated as two separate pages.

 

you need to either choose 1 or the other and provide 301 redirects.

 

So if you want http://www.domain.com

 

you need to

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.DOMAINs\.TLD$

RewriteRule (.*) DOMAIN.TLD/$1 [R=301,L]

 

if oyu want to have your site be domain.com

 

Then you 301 www.

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^DOMAIN\.TLD$

RewriteRule (.*) DOMAIN.TLD/$1 [R=301,L]

 

It is not good to have www. and non www.

 

edit* also you will need to rewrite more rules in .htaccess if you have existing content and links so that when you fix the issue a bot or user does not get a error when trying to view... say a whmcs knowledge base article or something.

Edited March 8, 2012 by tripler

[tripler]

I should add, for anyone who stumbles across this page that the same rules apply for

 

/index. html/php

 

Your internal links pointing to your homepage should just resolve to domain.com and not index.html/php or to only the index pages

 

So if you have a inner page pointing to domain.com/index and you dont have any rules in place to 301 domain/index or http://www.domain/index'>http://www.domain/index thats a duplicate page.

 

So either set a rule for anything to /index to 301 to domain.tld or http://www.domain.tld'>http://www.domain.tld vis versa

 

To sum up

 

Choose only one:

 

domain.tld or http://www.domain.tld'>http://www.domain.tld

 

domain.com domain.com/index - http://www.domain -- http://www.domain/index'>http://www.domain/index

 

or visa v ex: domain.com 301 domain.tld/index