If you know IP address of your website then enter it in a browser. Does it load your website with the IP address? Then be careful, your server IP is not forwarding to your website’s domain name. IP should redirect to your website’s URL or to a page from your website hosting provider. Search engines like Google are now able to index your website with its IP instead of its domain name. This will result in duplicate content.
So to avoid the problem of duplicate content you should do an htaccess 301 redirect to make sure the IP does not get indexed.
This can be achieved in Nginx by changing the default vhost configuration.
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
Add the following code at the top of the above file.
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name _;
return 403;
}
Then restart nginx.
sudo service nginx restart
Similarly, in apache you should paste the following code at the end of the .htaccess file
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^123\.345\.567\.789
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Replace your IP with the numbers and example.com with your domain name.
Now check again with the IP. You should see a redirect.
Xaif says
4th August 2016 at 9:30 amI have deleted the droplet. Now? What should I do?
Now, I am using Shared Hosting from Namecheap
wbxpress says
4th August 2016 at 11:48 pmThen use .htaccess method which has been described in this post.
Xaif says
5th August 2016 at 6:55 amThis will work? How much time will this take?
Xaif says
5th August 2016 at 8:19 amIts not working from google search check this IP
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^162\.243\.41\.208
RewriteRule (.*) https://xtremetricks.net/$1 [R=301,L]
wbxpress says
5th August 2016 at 6:46 pmWhen i try hitting http://162.243.41.208/ it is going nowhere. That is a good thing. Google will not index this ip address. You can check this only after deleting your browser cache.
Xaif says
7th August 2016 at 11:38 pmYes, Google removed that link. Now, my another question in Google my posts are of two types
https://Www.mysite. Com
https://Mysite. com
This is good or bad?
wbxpress says
8th August 2016 at 11:19 amYou should not have these two types i.e. www and non-www mixed. Maintain any one of the two and stick with it.
Xaif says
8th August 2016 at 1:49 pmIn Google its showing both what should I do now?
wbxpress says
8th August 2016 at 10:41 pmyou should redirect www to non-www domain or vice-versa.
check this: https://easyengine.io/tutorials/nginx/www-non-www-redirection/
Xaif says
9th August 2016 at 12:22 pmI am using Shared Hosting 🙁 of Namecheap
wbxpress says
9th August 2016 at 10:03 pmDo you have root access (command line)?
vikrant guleria says
3rd January 2018 at 2:41 pmNYC POST, may i know diff between www nd non www webstite , which one is recommended for ranking
wbxpress says
7th January 2018 at 10:51 amnon-www version: https://wbxpress.net
www version: https://www.wbxpress.net
we prefer non-www version.