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[Mitch Pirtle]

With apache you can use the Alias directive, meaning that anything
pointed at an entry under Alias will get fed to the virtual host
silently.

You could also use redirects for each vhost, so everyone eventually
learns where the consolidated site lives.

-- Mitch


On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:19:10 -0500, Hans C. Kaspersetz
<hans at cyberxdesigns.com> wrote:
> I am working on migrating a site from one server to another today.  On
> the old server there were multiple domains pointing at one virtual site
> eg:  www.domain.com, domain.com, www.domain.org and domain.org all point
> to the same virtual site and therefore the same content.  (Duplicate
> content.)  I am trying to devise a migration strategy that will include
> 301 redirects and DNS.
> 
> Do the search engines handle A records and CNAME records differently?
> If www is a CNAME to domain.org, is that the same as two A records
> www.domain.org and domain.org as far as search engines are concerned?
> Is that subject to the duplicate content penalty?  Do I need to create 2
> distinct virtual sites one for www and one for domain.org and have one
> of them redirect to the other?
> 
> Hans
> 
> --
> Hans C. Kaspersetz
> Cyber X Designs
> 
> http://www.cyberxdesigns.com
> 
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