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    thepix
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    Posted: 2005-May-12 00:54
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    Hi, I am working on my companies website and there is one thing that is a bit of an annoyance. When you type www.mycompanysite.com you get to the page no problem, however when you only type mycompanysite.com without the www you get a page can not be displayed error.

    I have a hunch it is because the secondary DNS is not set up properly but I am not certain.

    Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.



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    Posted: 2005-May-12 13:06
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    Leave it as it is, it is quite safe. Moset sites are accessed via a www prefix anyway.

    Or, set it up so that non-www does also access the content, but does so via a 301 redirect from non-www to www. Failure to include the redirect will stuff up your results in Google due to the way they treat "duplicate content".



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    Posted: 2005-May-12 16:56
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    But how do I set it up so that it will go to the non-www address?

    Thanks!



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    Posted: 2005-May-12 17:01
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    You want to set it up so that nonwww goes to www. via a 301 redirect - search for 301 redirect & your server type. Try this...



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    Posted: 2005-May-12 19:37
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    >> But how do I set it up so that it will go to the non-www address? <<

    I assume that you don't want to redirect www to non-www. That would not help you at all. I assume that you just want to make non-www accessible.

    You'll need to add an entry in the main config file, I suspect. I believe the entry is under the ServerAlias section somewhere.

    Your DNS settings might also need to be altered if that doesn't fix it.

    You will need to set up a 301 redirect to resolve to just one URL, otherwise you will be serving duplicate content - and that will cause you a lot of problems.



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    Posted: 2005-May-13 03:04
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    I might mention this is possibly something that your hosting company should do for you, if you do not have access.


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