This is pretty easy to setup by adding this to your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^mydomain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please note, you will need to change mydomain.com to your actual domain name.

Once you have done so, both mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com will both send you to www.mydomain.com. This is usually done for search engine optimization reasons, to prevent the search engines from seeing your one web site as two different web sites.

You can also force your domain to drop the www from the address when typed in, if you would rather have it the other way around. In that situation, you would need to add this to your .htaccess file:

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

Please note, you will need to change mydomain.com to your actual domain name.

This will make both mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com send you to just mydomain.com.   Hope this comes in handy the next time you are optimizing your own websites.

htaccess Cheatsheet

mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet

htaccess cheatsheet from Google Groups

There you have it.  Know of anymore good htaccess tips or cheat sheets?  Leave me a link in the comments and I’ll go check them all out.

Looks like the guy at thefirefox.net got in there and was directing traffic from the search engine crawlers from me to him. Now both Firefox Facts and the Web Hosting Show are still in Google and the others, but show up in none of the results.

I have reported these guys at thefirefox.net to Google, their web host, their domain name register and to Mozilla but have yet to hear anything about it. Looks like a web site setup to trick people into thinking they are Mozilla so they can get their hands on much AdSense click-through cash when you download it with the Google toolbar.

What action has been taken thus far? Nada. Nothing. Big Goose Egg.. but if I hear from one of them I’ll be sure to post it here and let you all know.

I have done my begging at the holy search engine alter with Google – and now I guess the wait begins to see how long I will be out of the search engine results.