Server Help

palkema · Newbie Joined: Dec 07 2007 Posts: 1 Offline

Hey guys... if i go to a website say,

http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html

I click the URL and remove the "http://www." off the beginning of the url and hit submit server will fix my problem without moving me to any other page.

I am having an issue doing this with my server. It seems that most servers have this functionality already but mine doesn't. Could somone please explain this to me?

Doc Flabby · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:27 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

This isn't the right place to ask, so this top will probably get moved as it deal with SubSpace Servers. However as to your problem, its a DNS setting, i recommend you ask your domain name service providor to set it up for you.
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Solo Ace · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:16 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Works for me without messing with DNS settings. You should just fix your virtual host configs.

Maverick · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:45 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

palkema, check your DNS settings.
There should be two A records to work with and without "www":

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A 192.168.175.133
www A 192.168.175.133

And, as Solo Ace said, also check your virtual host/Apache configuration.

More information (and the place to ask more questions):
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=603864
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CypherJF · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:52 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I've seen some sites create a redirect to the www. if you hit it without.
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Smong · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:57 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Sometimes I've seen sites hosted on sscentral.com add the www if you try to go to a page that doesn't exist, probably something messed up in the configs.
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Cheese · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:39 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

and u can use mod_rewrite to remove www completely.
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Cerium · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:43 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

mod_rewrite and a redirect is overkill for such a thing. If they're going to point to the same place anyway, just setup the no-subdomain version as your primary in the vhost entry, then add a server alias for the www.

Example:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName cericlabs.com
ServerAlias www.cericlabs.com
ServerAlias c-server

# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>

Of course, this only works if they're both pointing to the same server; but yeah...
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