How to redirect all your pages from www to root domain using ruby on rails
July 30th, 2010 // 2:59 am @ Aymeric // 2 Comments
I realized today that my current configuration of taskarmy.com and www.taskarmy.com implied that Google considered them as two different domain names. This is bad for SEO for example (plus I had some login issues).
So I decided to redirect 301 all the pages coming from www to my root domain taskarmy.com.
(By the way, why are people still using www? I find this unnecessary.)
Anyway, this is the piece of code you can add in a before_filter method in your ApplicationController in a Ruby on Rails application:
host = request.host.gsub(/www./,”)
if /^www/.match(request.host)
new_url = "#{request.protocol}#{host}#{request.request_uri}"
redirect_to(new_url, :status => 301)
end
Cheers,
Aymeric
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Sam G
4 weeks ago
There’s an even easier way to do this if your’e using nginx. You can remove the before filter and speed up your rails app.
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/converting_rewrite_rules.html
Aymeric
4 weeks ago
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I am using Heroku which I don’t think will allow me change the rewrite rules.