Auto-redirect www subdomain

[Xavior82]

Hello,

Using my current configuration, when I create a new account in WHM it allows users to access the site using:

http://domain.com

AND

http://www.domain.com

How can I make it so that by default, when *any* new account is created, all accesses from http://domain.com be redirected automatically to http://www.domain.com.

What I'm looking for here is not a one-time solution (I know this type of manipulation can be done manually by editing the .htaccess file on the newly created account), but rather a global solution that I can apply to the whole server and that would be applied to any newly created accounts.

I know search engines can penalize sites for showing duplicate content on different subdomains so would like to be able to avoid this, if at all possible.

Thanks!

[bvierra]

just make a .htaccess file and drop it into the the skel dir

[Xavior82]

I don't know what syntax I would use to make .htaccess rules that would be valid on different domains.

I would normally set it up like this (for redirecting www to non-www):

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

How would I make this work as a general solution for *any* domain?

Thanks!

[Arcat]

Ok, so looking at your example for www to non-www, if you wanted that to work on ANY domain, then you need to build up a regular expression to capture that appropriately (and of course, reverse it, since your original question was to go from non-www to www). Here is an article with some pretty good starter points:
non-www to www for any domain (primary and parked domains)

Hope that helps!

I don't know what syntax I would use to make .htaccess rules that would be valid on different domains.

I would normally set it up like this (for redirecting www to non-www):

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

How would I make this work as a general solution for *any* domain?

Thanks!