Do I need a www to non-www redirection code with WP 3.5?

  • I have recently migrated my Joomla site to WP and I am wondering whether the www to non-www redirection code I was using is actually needed anymore.
    I have observed that the www. pages are redirected to non-www by default

    However, while before – in Joomla days – Google Webmasters tools reported no issue with the www. version of the site, now I am getting errors that it’s not properly indexed.
    So I am worried that whatever redirection WordPress is doing may not be that effective on the whole

    SO I have just added back the redirect code

    ########## Begin - Redirect www to non-www
## WARNING: Comment out the non-www to www rule if you choose to use this
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
## If the above throws an HTTP 500 error, swap [R=301,L] with [R,L]
########## End - Redirect non-www to www

    While I had been using this code without trouble, some others were suggesting the following as more appropriate

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.example\.com)?$
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    What is actually the case?
    – Do I need a www. to non-www code in WordPress 3.5?
    – If I do, which of the above is the recommended one?

    Cheers

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  • Thread Starter definitio

    (@definitio)

    Sorry, I posted the non-www to www code in the last instance above.

    Thread Starter definitio

    (@definitio)

    bumping this up…

    1) Should I be using an htaccess rewrite rule to point https://www.mysite.com/* to mysite.com/* given that WP does that in some way?

    2) What’s the best way to do that?
    I have come across various suggested codes

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

    or

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

    or

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

    or

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.([^.]+)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    or

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

    What do WP knowledgeable users recommend?

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