Force www on Jekyll website using Javascript

I wanted to force using my jekyll website to have the “www” prefix and because my Jekyll doesn’t have a back-end I couldn’t do it on the server, so I needed to use Javascript or Meta tags. A few people says Google Search engine handles meta refresh as 301/302 so it would be better to go with this approach from a SEO perspective.

If you want to force www prefix on your website using javascript, you can use this snippet:

<script>
if (window.location.hostname.indexOf("www") != 0) {
	window.location = window.location.protocol + "//www." + window.location.hostname + window.location.pathname;
}
</script>

I have created a _include/force_www.html file and I’m using jekyll.environment to load it, so I’m only loading it on production.

Matheus