This article applies only to
Windows 2008 servers with
IIS7 (sites hosted on our raptor13 or newer). It explains how to use the IIS Rewrite Module to direct incoming traffic for http://domainname.com to http://www.domainname.com, a popular thing to do for SEO.
Step 1: Download the
web.config file from your site root folder.
Step 2: Open this file in your favorite text editor and insert the following redirection code inside the
<configuration> tags.
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="WWW Rewrite" enabled="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" negate="true" pattern="^www\.([.a-zA-Z0-9]+)$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
<system.webServer>
Step 3: Save the file and upload it back to your FTP
If if the
<system.webServer> already exists in your
web.config place the code minus the <system.webServer> tags inside the existing tag structure.