www part of the url

manuleka

hi, just wondering how can i get my domain to display the www bit of the url if i enter http://mydomain.com ... i seen alot of site when you type in http://domain.com the page loads and the url changes to http://www.domain.com

like i always type in http://google.com and when the forum home page loads, it changes to http://www.google.com

Your-Amish-Daddy

I think it has to do with the domain registration or something, since "www" sites don't always lead to webservers, and non-marked sites often lead to webservers. Send your domain register an email and ask about it.

Linc

That's to do with the server's setup. Some people use something like Apache's mod_rewrite to require a "canonical" address - it always either adds or takes away the www. I plan on implementing this soon on Short-Media (to always remove the www).

This is something you'll need to discuss with your hosting provider. My guess is that it will be more trouble than it's worth unless you host it yourself.

Kwitko

General Keebler wrote: »

I plan on implementing this soon on Short-Media (to always remove the www).

Why?

Linc

Because I'm tired of people leaving links with/without the www when I'm cookied on the other one. That, and it's just extraneous typing. URLs should be as compact and semantic as possible.

Zuntar

the www part is useless now-a-days, IMHO.

yagga

Zuntar wrote: »

the www part is useless now-a-days, IMHO.

yes, seems reasonable

Rob

At one point, 'domains' were just that, your companies domain. The www. is a third level domain, which was directed to the world wide web portal for a companies 'domain' Computers really did exist before porn sites and broadband, really....

The lines are muddy now. www. is a third level domain, but since it has such a close relationship to the domain these days they are usually aliased in the server configuration and DNS.

You will still see some companies web sites only respond to www.

Your-Amish-Daddy

Thanks for the info, Rob.

Linc

Good to see you, Rob!

Rob

Yeah, I still lurk from time to time

manuleka

got it fixed with this into my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on

#Define Rewrite Base.

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cokenut\.net [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cokenut.net/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (index\.php) [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ http://www.cokenut.net/$1 [L,R=301]

cheers guys...

Your-Amish-Daddy

Thanks for the code.