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I was asked a question from a friend if he should redirect his-domain.com to www.his-domain.com.

I answered him that it seems more intuitive to just make both work. So if you enter by his-domain.com you get to his-domain.com and if you enter www.his-domain.com you get to www.his-domain.com. This is what I do on my sites. I have an ServerAlias in my apache.conf file that says ServerAlias my-domain.com *.my-domain.com

But to my surprise,most major sites seems to take the redirect approach. Which I can understand if the sites are using SSL. But if they are not, I don't.

So are there any objective reasons to choose one instead of the other?

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It would be nice if you read my question before closing it. But from the reactions I get I guess the answer could be something like:

"Don't make both www.domain.com and domain.com work side by side. Nobody does that. Just redirect one to the other".

Even if none is willing to give a technical answer to my question I would hope someone could have answered at least that instead of closing as a duplicate and refering to different question (which to some degree was related)

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  • Also worth checking out: webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/507/…
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented May 24, 2013 at 10:19
  • Please read more than the first sentence before closing a question. The question was not about what you thought...
    – Niclas Nilsson
    Commented May 24, 2013 at 10:35
  • A more suitable closing link has been provided, without engaging into further discussion if you feel that this is a unique question and not answered anywhere else on the site in various forms please edit your question, or use the meta.webmasters.stackexchange.com to discuss this issue further.
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented May 24, 2013 at 10:38
  • Well, I reacted i little childish and don't need to go on with this :) I feel that I got some kind of answer even though my question was misunderstood (none of the other ops was asking the same question as I was). But that might be my own fault, I could have made the question more clear. Thnx...
    – Niclas Nilsson
    Commented May 24, 2013 at 10:41

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