> On Aug 7, 7:39 am, Peter Cooper <pcoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How do other Passenger users deal with removing or adding "www" to
> > their URLs without using mod_rewrite?

> > For example, if I have a sitehttp://www.example.com/, I might want
> > all visitors tohttp://example.com/to redirect tohttp://www.example.com/
> > (or vice versa). This is recommended for SEO purposes to help prevent
> > duplicate content being detected. Normally you'd use a rewrite rule
> > with a host-based condition to deal with this, but is there a way of
> > doing it without activating mod_rewrite?

> > I could always activate mod_rewrite and deal with it the classic way,
> > but since it's hinted that this isn't a Good Thing (tm) to do, I'd
> > like to avoid doing that.

> Just to add in case it's useful for someone else, a few people have
> suggested on Twitter having two virtual hosts, one for www and one
> without, and then using a simple Redirect on one. That's not
> acceptable in my case as I'm using cPanel and don't want to mess with
> the VirtualHosts if I can avoid it (in which case mod_rewrite
> reactivation is a better option).