http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/421 <p> This from a user: could you read/think/check/let us know what you think Chris? </p> <p> Recently, Google announced a change in the page rank mechanism: <a class="ext-link" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.de/2012/10/a-new-tool-to-disavow"><span class="icon">​</span>http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.de/2012/10/a-new-tool-to-disavow</a>-... </p> <p> I've noticed that I get hundreds of links to our site because transitionnetwork.org can be prefixed by litteraly anything, thus duplicating its contents and unique URLs. This kind of deduplication is not good since google will consider the links to be of a poorer quality. As an example, I get a list of links with the following originating URLs: </p> <p> 222.transitionnetwork.org 2ftotnes.transitionnetwork.org 2fwww.transitionnetwork.org 2www.transitionnetwork.org dir.transitionnetwork.org edmitchell.transitionnetwork.org httpstatic.transitionnetwork.org jims-test-presence.transitionnetwork.org maail.transitionnetwork.org mean.www.transitionnetwork.org news.transitionnetwork.org newstats.transitionnetwork.org smtp.transitionnetwork.org stories.transitionnetwork.org w3ww.transitionnetwork.org www.transitionnetwork.org wwww.transitionnetwork.org I understand you want to catchall typos like wwww instead of www, but I think the better way would be to redirect all traffic to www instead of actually allow to browse the site with wwww. </p> en-us /trac/chrome/site/TransitionNetwork-Logo-Web-Small.jpg http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/421 Trac 0.12.5 chris Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:20:57 GMT http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/421#comment:1 http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/421#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>accepted</em> </li> <li><strong>estimatedhours</strong> changed from <em>0.0</em> to <em>0.5</em> </li> </ul> <p> I was going to fix this with the switch to nginx see <a class="closed ticket" href="http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/403" title="enhancement: Wild card domain names - *.transitionnetwork.org (closed: fixed)">ticket:403</a> but as that is stalled I'll fix it for apache. </p> Ticket chris Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:58:46 GMT http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/421#comment:2 http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/421#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>hours</strong> changed from <em>0.0</em> to <em>0.3</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>accepted</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>component</strong> changed from <em>DNS</em> to <em>Live server</em> </li> <li><strong>totalhours</strong> changed from <em>0.0</em> to <em>0.3</em> </li> </ul> <p> The wild card line: </p> <blockquote> <p> ServerAlias *.transitionnetwork.org </p> </blockquote> <p> In <tt>/etc/apache2/sites-available/transitionnetwork.org.conf</tt> was moved from the main 8080 and 443 virtual hosts to the ones doing the redirect for transitionnetwork.org to www.transitionnetwork.org and these virtual host were moved to the end of the file as the wild card need to come at the end. </p> Ticket