Avoid multiple redirects when using www.

[marcusquinn]

Since Cloudron is handling the redirects, I don't think it would be efficient to do in the .htaccess for every site.

Based on this Google Pagespeed report for http://marcusquinn.com which will be the first try for anyone typing in a domain:

• https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=marcusquinn.com&tab=mobile&hl=en_GB

Compared to:

• https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marcusquinn.com%2F&hl=en_GB

In reference to these articles:

• https://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/
• https://www.danielmorell.com/guides/htaccess-seo/redirects/https-www-and-trailing-slash
• https://www.danielmorell.com/guides/htaccess-seo/sample-code/redirect-sample-code#https-www-files

It seems this generator would be good for the default setup when www. is the Main location:

• https://www.danielmorell.com/tools/htaccess/redirect-generator

For example::

My website if you're interested in my ramblings on technology too :

• https://www.marcusquinn.com

Will do a proper write-up post on Cloudron once I'm happy with my setup

[girish]

Good point. If i understand correctly, you want http://foo.com to redirect to https://www.foo.com directly. FWIW, because of redirect caching + HSTS this just a one time thing (atleast for that user+browser)

[marcusquinn]

@girish Yes please Same principles would be equally valuable to those using Ghost / Wordpress / Surfer for their www. site.

Might be worth a note in the Docs too with a link to the above commentary on the reasons for choosing to use www. as it would help make high-availability multi-Cloudron setups possible, where you can have multiple CNAME IPs for a subdomain but not the naked root domain AFAIK.

[girish]

I have fixed this for the next release (5.6). Thanks for reporting.

[rmdes]

I simply add www for most apps because too many people are used to type this before reaching their destination.
But from reading this thread I'm even more confused ?

I thought dropping www was not such bad idea, a bit a useless remain from when hosting was hard? I may be completely wrong but I really want to understand what's the best thing to do, certainly if it impacts SEO etc...

[marcusquinn]

@rmdes I think from a user point of view it just needs to work with either, they don't really care as long as typing results in what they were hoping for. From a Sys Admin point of view, www. is more flexible for scaling and high-availability setups. As an example, if you use Odoo enterprise, it must be www. for the websites.