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How to change this redirect from 301 to 302?

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James---:
Hello,

When we check our redirects with this redirect checking tool http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/,
we notice that one of our forum's URL redirects from http:// to http://www (so from non-www to the www version)
with a 302 temporarily redirect instead of a 301!

This is not ideal for SEO, because what we want is a redirect which is for always and not temporarily. This has impact on SEO.

How do we change this 302 redirect into a 301? We checked .htaccess, but the redirect is not even in there.

MrPhil:
There's nothing in the .htaccess file(s)? I assume you're on an Apache server (which uses .htaccess) and not IIS (which doesn't). You should see something like

--- Code: ---RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ^yourdomain\.com  [NC]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  http://www.yourdomain.com/$1  [L]
--- End code ---

That's a 302. Change [L] to [R=301,L] to get a 301 (permanent) redirect.

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