{"id":24,"date":"2006-08-22T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-08-22T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T11:08:08","slug":"resolving-canonical-issues-with-plesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"resolving canonical issues with plesk."},"content":{"rendered":"

in the world of SEO (search engine optimization), there is an unwritten rule (well, it will be written sooner or later) that you can’t have duplicate content on google search engines from the same site. this means that http:\/\/www.domain.com and http:\/\/domain.com cannot both be found by search engines. you must choose one or the other or you may face a penalty.
\nthere’s an easy solution for this using vhosts in plesk. the only not-so-user-friendly part about this that you have to do it for every domain you are worried about, and with 100+ domains, you’ll be making 100+ (or 200+ files if you have SSL support as well) vhost files for each domain.
\nin any event, this is how it’s done.
\nnavigate on your plesk server to your domain’s conf directory. on some machines, it’s
\n# cd \/var\/www\/vhosts\/domain.com\/conf<\/font>
\ni prefer going through this shortcut:
\n# cd \/home\/httpd\/vhosts\/domain.com\/conf<\/font>
\nregardless, both are symbolically linked — or they should be in certain setups.
\ncreate the file vhost.conf<\/font>
\n# vi vhost.conf<\/font>
\nadd the following to the vhost.conf file
\nRewriteEngine On
\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\. [NC]
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [QSA,R=301,L]<\/font>
\nfor domains with SSL support, you will need to create a file called vhost_ssl.conf<\/font> as well.
\n# vi vhost_ssl.conf
\nRewriteEngine On
\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\. [NC]
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [QSA,R=301,L]<\/font>
\nthat’s it! now, run this plesk command to process your update.
\n# \/usr\/local\/psa\/admin\/bin\/websrvmng -av<\/font>
\nload your page in your preferred web browser as http:\/\/domain.com. it will automatically redirect to http:\/\/www.domain.com and will be reflected in search engines with the www prefix only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

in the world of SEO (search engine optimization), there is an unwritten rule (well, it will be written sooner or later) that you can’t have duplicate content on google search engines from the same site. this means that http:\/\/www.domain.com and http:\/\/domain.com cannot both be found by search engines. you must choose one or the other or you may face a penalty. there’s an easy solution for this using vhosts in plesk. the only not-so-user-friendly part …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}