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Thread: Www redirects to index?
Started 1 month, 1 week ago by sdevaney
I really wasn't sure where to post this so if its in the wrong place I am sorry. So a friend of mine has this forum and he isn't very code knowledgeable but anyways sometimes he will send me links to check out topics like http://www.blah.com/viewtopic.php?t=1600737 And that will redirect me to his index page, where if I just take out the www. and go to http://blah....
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Oler1s replied 1 month, 1 week ago
The server is configured incorrectly. www is the subdomain, and how subdomains are handled depends on the server.
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sdevaney replied 1 month, 1 week ago
Could you please explain a little bit as to how www. is the subdomain? Or what might be mis-configured?
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Oler1s replied 1 month, 1 week ago
Quote: Could you please explain a little bit as to how www. is the subdomain? How is www the subdomain? These are technical names given to parts of a URL. WWW urls are of the form http://subdomain.domain.tld where the domain and tld are required. If you look at the format http:///www.blah.com, clearly, www is the subdomain. Quote: Or what might be mis-...
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sdevaney replied 1 month, 1 week ago
Thank you very much for that explanation it is greatly appreciated!
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brianbak replied 1 month, 1 week ago
It is also common to use a rewrite in the .htaccess file to rewrite www. to non. If this is not configured to keep the part after the / then it would forward you to the index. Code: RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.stealthyhosting.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://stealthyhosting.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
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Www redirects to index?
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Thank you very much for that explanation it is greatly appreciated!
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Www redirects to index?
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Quote: Could you please explain a little bit as to how www. is the subdomain? How is www the subdomain? These are technical names given to parts of a URL. WWW urls are of the form http://subdomain.domain.tld where the domain and tld are required. If you look at the format http:///www.blah.com, clearly, www is the subdomain. Quote: Or what might be mis-configured? No idea. Well, look, the request comes to the computer at blah.com. The request...
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It is also common to use a rewrite in the .htaccess file to rewrite www. to non. If this is not configured to keep the part after the / then it would forward you to the index. Code: RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.stealthyhosting.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://stealthyhosting.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

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