I was asked a question from a friend if he should redirect his-domain.com to www.his-domain.com.I answered him that it seems more intuitive to just make both work. So if you enter by his-domain.com you get to his-domain.com and if you enter www.his-domain.com you get to www.his-domain.com. This is what I do on my sites. I have an ServerAlias in my apache.conf file that says ServerAlias my-domain.com *.my-domain.comBut to my surprise,most major sites seems to take the redirect approach. Which I can understand if the sites are using SSL. But if they are not, I don't.So are there any objective reasons to choose one instead of the other?More nuanced editIt would be nice if you read my question before closing it. But from the reactions I get I guess the answer could be something like:Don't make both www.domain.com and domain.com work side by side. Nobody does that. Just redirect one to the other. Even if none is willing to give a technical answer to my question I would hope someone could have answered at least that instead of closing as a duplicate and refering to different question (which to some degree was related)
Redirect of www vs. all works
apache;redirects;dns