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sunsnapper
Do I need www. in the url for my web site?

What if I don't want to require www. in my URL?

http://www.brilliantenergy.com/about/ does work.
Though, if I remove the www, I go back to getting the blank page: http://brilliantenergy.com/about/

I'm sure I can track down the cause... it's just interesting. This happens even if not using mod_rewrite:
http://brilliantenergy.com/modules/wfchannel/

The home page is the only place that seems to tolerate this:
http://brilliantenergy.com/
works fine.

I suspect if I edit mainfile.php to make 'XOOPS_URL'
brilliantenergy.com instead of www.brilliantenergy.com it might work. Hopefully, it doesn't create a new problem.

(You may also be interested in this thread:
Apache mod_rewrite )

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chapi
Re: Do I need www. in the url for my web site?
  • 2003/11/5 15:05

  • chapi

  • Theme Designer

  • Posts: 611

  • Since: 2002/1/22


http://www.chapi.de/v4/modules/guestbook/ works fine.


http://chapi.de/v4/modules/guestbook/ results in a white page.

So I also think this is caused by the XOOPS_URL in mainfile.php as you mentioned, but have no time to check it at the moment.

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sunsnapper
Re: Do I need www. in the url for my web site?

As predicted, changing XOOPS_URL to brilliantenergy.com allows it to work without the www. However, one get's the problem in reverse.

I think I will go without the www for XOOPS_URL in mainfile.php and then see if I can create an alias for www in my DNS. (Actually, I just checked the DNS and it appears there is already an A record for *.domain.com, so I guess that's not going to be enough. For the time being, I guess I'll add www back to my XOOPS_URL .)

I'm happy to hear other suggestions.

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ajaxbr
Re: Do I need www. in the url for my web site?
  • 2003/11/25 23:59

  • ajaxbr

  • Quite a regular

  • Posts: 276

  • Since: 2003/10/25


Bumpty boo.
Any workaround available? I'd say this is pretty bad for production sites.

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mariuss
Re: Do I need www. in the url for my web site?
  • 2003/11/26 0:32

  • mariuss

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 99

  • Since: 2002/9/6 5


You could configure XOOPS to work with brilliantenergy.com and then configure your web server to redirect www.brilliantenergy.com to brilliantenergy.com.

Depending on the theme you use it may be possible to work with both URLs (without a redirect), but I doubt. Since XOOPS needs to know your site's URL it only makes sense that you cannot use two different URLs, right?

Marius

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chrisz
Re: Do I need www. in the url for my web site?
  • 2003/11/26 1:06

  • chrisz

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 44

  • Since: 2003/7/9 1


I can access my site either through smartautomation.com or www.smartautomation.com and XOOPS doesn't seem to care. If I just type smartautomation.com I'm automatically sent to www.smartautomation.com.

Good luck!
Chris

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