Need to redirect your www.yourdomain.com requests to yourdomain.com (without the www)?

This quick guide shows how you can do this to the optimal 'no-www' Class B specification on a Windows /IIS server. You will need access to the server's desktop.

1) Launch the 'Application Server' window

2) Create a new website under; IIS > Websites > New > Website

3) Name it 'no-www redirect', click next

4) In the box entitled 'Host header for this website'; enter your website domain with the 'http://www.' (eg www.yourdomain.com). Click next

5) When prompted for the path just select the local drive. This will be overriden later

6) Leave default permissions in place and compete the wizard

7) Select the new website from the 'Application Server' window and select properties from the right-click menu

8) Open the 'Home Directory' tab. Select the 'A redirection to a URL' radio button

9) In the 'Redirect to:' box, enter the full url of the website but without the 'http://www.' (eg http://www.yourdomain.com)

10) Finally, select the check box titled; 'A permanent redirection for this resource'. It is ESSENTIAL that the check boxes marked 'The exact url entered above' and 'A directory below url entered' are NOT CHECKED!

11) Now start your newly created website.

What should happen now?

If you visit 'www.yourdomain.com' in a browser it will redirect to 'yourdomain.com'. If you want to know why this is beneficial &/or want to test its validity visit: http://www.no-www.org