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http:// and http://www - same but different?

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    XTheme Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago
    Hi peeps,
    had a few issues with a new site over the last couple of days (not modX related) but it related to nameserver settings - while I was working with the name rego company I was checking out my bookmarks of client sites - I always use friendly url’s and upload the htaccess file supplied in the modX download - now in some of the site managers when I preview site it goes to ’http://www.sitename.co.nz’ and the internal page links show for their destination and in others it goes to ’http://sitename’ with no www ? what have I done here? any ideas - Cheers AL
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      Last Of The Romans Reply #2, 16 years, 2 months ago
      your topic is not for here, but the answer is in .htaccess:
      Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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        XTheme Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago
        Cheers - where is my topic for?, I’ve read the link at the top of the htaccess file but it doesn’t cover this. As I said same .htaccess file used for all sites.
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          Last Of The Romans Reply #4, 16 years, 2 months ago
          Quote from: X at Jul 14, 2010, 02:47 AM

          Cheers - where is my topic for?, I’ve read the link at the top of the htaccess file but it doesn’t cover this. As I said same .htaccess file used for all sites.

          maybe for "Webworker Lounge" whatever, important is successfully resolve...
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            Mark Hamstra Reply #5, 16 years, 2 months ago
            I always use htaccess to either rewrite links to www.sitename.com or sitename.com (without the www) to prevent weird issues..

            At some time I spent hours trying to figure out why an AJAX request wasn’t returning any information (while the script did trigger), this turned out to be related to whether www was included or not. AJAX can’t be used cross-domain, and "www.sitename.com" isn’t the same domain as "sitename.com" apparently.
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              Last Of The Romans Reply #6, 16 years, 2 months ago
              Quote from: Mark at Jul 14, 2010, 05:12 AM

              ....
              At some time I spent hours trying to figure out why an AJAX request wasn’t returning any information (while the script did trigger), this turned out to be related to whether www was included or not. AJAX can’t be used cross-domain, and "www.sitename.com" isn’t the same domain as "sitename.com" apparently.

              what you thing about this:
              http://www.ajax-cross-domain.com/
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                Mark Hamstra Reply #7, 16 years, 2 months ago
                Quote from: Kristalin at Jul 14, 2010, 05:15 AM

                Quote from: Mark at Jul 14, 2010, 05:12 AM

                ....

                what you thing about this:
                http://www.ajax-cross-domain.com/

                That.... is fancy :d

                Edit: And expensive, € 55 for a single user license o.O
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                  BobRay Reply #8, 16 years, 2 months ago
                  http://no-www.org/ wink
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                    ckluis Reply #9, 16 years, 2 months ago
                    The real reason you want to do a redirect is for SEO.

                    Search engines consider www.xxx.com and xxx.com two different websites and therefor if someone links to version 1 and someone else links to version 2 you have have 1 link instead of 1+1 as if you had done a redirect.

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                      Symbiosys Reply #10, 16 years ago
                      Chrome 6 strips all http:// and www information now, thank christ! Stupid WWW.
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