When it comes to search engine indexing, we need to ensure only ONE version of either https://non-www or https://www indexed. Our preferred way is to use https:/non-www as the default website address, such as https://eharvest.com.au. This requires all other three website address variants to be redirected at the server level to your default URL.
http://eharvest.com.au -> https://eharvest.com.au
http://www.eharvest.com.au -> https://eharvest.com.au
https://www.eharvest.com.au -> https://eharvest.com.auIf you’re using a CMS like WordPress and happened to set www version as your default site URL, simply removing the www in your URL configuration will likely to cause your site entering a redirect loop. To resolve this, follow below two steps:
1. Do a database search and replace to remove the www in all the appearance of your database tables. See code and steps below:
Do a database dump:
mysqldump -u user -p databasename > database.sql
Run sed command to find/replace to remove the www. string
sed -i 's/www.domain.com/domain.com/g' database.sql
Re-import the updated database
mysql -u user -p databasename < database.sql
2. Redirect www to non-www and http to https which can be done in the .htaccess file, as below:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]
