How do you have mydomain.com automatically go to www.mydomain.com (CNN.com does this)?

Thanks

EDIT: I'm using Windows 2000 Server

it should for all domains, but it doesnt for subdomains

check your dns if it isnt taking you to the site, otherwise when you yype in the www. of course should take you to the site you requested

mydomain.com works fine. I want to know how I can have it automatically point to www.mydomain.com so that links will include the www (I'm not typing out the entire URL - just the paths).

they both go to the same site

I know. I'm just curious as to how to make it so that anyone going to mydomain.com will automatically load www.mydomain.com. I would rather have the links on the site (I just used paths) point to www.mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com.

why does it matter?? lol its all the same thing

Heh, I realize that, but CNN and Google do it so I thought I should do the same (who knows, if they do it then it might help in some way).

nope it doesnt matter at all, you could use direct links though like instead of page.php you could make the link www.mydomain.com/page.php

no one got idea on how to do that? quite alot of web site i visit does that...someone pls comment on this...

That's is done by your web hosting company. It's a matter of DNS zone settings:

An A record pointing to www.domain.com. Some other companies use a CNAME record pointing to the same, but this configuration is not recommended.

That's all. ;)

This can be done 3 different ways:

1) Have a script set up to redirect the traffic to 'www'. This is basically what would happen if you set up a redirection record with a third party.

2) There is a index.html (or index.htm) that just has a small javascript redirect to the 'www'.

3) Handled by the web server. This is of course configured differently depending on your web server. But they can all (I should say "most") handle a simple URL rewrite.

On apache:

<VirtualHost 1.1.1.1:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
RedirectPermanent / http://www.yourdomain.com/
</VirtualHost>

Originally posted by zoli
On apache:

<VirtualHost 1.1.1.1:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
RedirectPermanent / http://www.yourdomain.com/
</VirtualHost>

no other way than this?

Hmm... this is the one I know.

I don't really get what you meant?
Isn't domain.com same as www.domain.com?:confused:

Originally posted by brianlim
I don't really get what you meant?
Isn't domain.com same as www.domain.com?:confused:

www look nicer...keke...

I think it is but try this and tell me what you think

Type this in your browser realmadrid.com
I get an 502 error

But type this www.realmadrid.com
and it will take you to the site. This is the only site i've seen that works like this I have always wondered why

depends on the server

i get no error on realmadrid.com

Originally posted by bullman
I think it is but try this and tell me what you think

Type this in your browser realmadrid.com
I get an 502 error

But type this www.realmadrid.com
and it will take you to the site. This is the only site i've seen that works like this I have always wondered why

the reason is that there is no "realmadrid.com" in the zone file to point to the server...