On Oct 5, 2011, at 03:31, vaughany wrote: > I work at a UK college and we have a large number of 'web products' on their > own subdomains along the lines of product.college.ac.uk, > someproduct.college.ac.uk. You would not believe how many people assume the > domain name, no matter what it is, has to have www. written in front of it to > work properly, when that is obviously not the case. > > For example, we use Moodle as our virtual learning environment, and it's set > on the subdomain moodle.college.ac.uk, and we get people typing in > www.moodle.college.ac.uk and then complain that our systems are down. Only > our public website uses www.college.ac.uk, and where we use external domain > names, we advertise them without the www. and rewrite the url (as above) if > the user arrives at our site via that method. > > Personally I think typing www. is ugly and no longer relevant, but not having > rewrite rules set (like so many UK colleges, whose websites seen to simply > not exist when all they need is www. on the front of the name) is worse. > > My 2p.
Sure. So fix your DNS to also resolve the www. versions of those hostnames and install redirections. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
