Google search console reports redirects from my preferred www setting (Canonicalization seems to be working backwards?)

Google search console reports redirects from my preferred www setting (Canonicalization seems to be working backwards?) - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Google search console reports redirects from my preferred www setting (Canonicalization seems to be working backwards?) error on your web browser. Problem :

I have two variations of my domain on webmasters. One is http://www and the other is non-www.

I have set my preferred domain to be non-www.

I have used the function "Fetch as Google" and have had redirects in both of them.

Firstly, my http://www redirects to https

Secondly, my non-www redirects to www (http not https)

My questions are:
- Should I be adding a variation of my site to webmasters as https as well? Is there a way to canonicalize http vs https?
- Are these re-directs a problem?
- Does it sound like I have duplicate content from what you can see?
- Why is my non-www redirecting to my www when I have set the canonicalization to non-www preferred?

Solution :

i guess, you should have some troubles with settings of http, https, www and non-www on the hoster side (or in your htaccess, httpd.conf or nginx.conf - don't know, what webserver in use).

• Inspect your setup - what variant redirect where.


• After inspection establish only one canonical variant, like https://www,


• than make sure, that every other variant is 301-redirected to the canonical.


• Than setup your Search console according to your canonical variant.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the google-search-console, redirects, canonical-url error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!