: How to hide addon domains folder paths from search results I have a hosting account with domain.com and we are hosting about 5 different websites. I have 5 folders in the hosting account each

@Debbie626

Without more info about your hosting situation i am unsure if this would work, but here is a stack that will try to force redirect-canonicalize all host/sub/domain/ip instances into www.addon-domain.com:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^123.123.123.123 [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.123.123.123.123 [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^d5151150.host-domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.d5151150.host-domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addon-domain.my-domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.addon-domain.my-domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addon-domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.addon-domain.com/" [R=301,L]


If you encounter the platform install path showing once the domain is redirect-canonicalized, then this is a different issue -- you should use a rewrite for that or make the addon (and util sub) "live" in the install folder of said platform.

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@Sarah324

This is just another case of two or more URLs pulling up the same content. You have two ways you can handle this:


Do a 301 redirect from the URLs you do not want to show in the search results to the one that you do want to show.
Use canonical URLs


<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.12345.com/example.html" />

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