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Old August 30th, 2002, 08:53 AM
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Question configure server to load site with "www" or not?
i'm running iplanet on a sun server... how do i configure the server so the website will load whether or not "www" is in the address?

i.e. www.website.com or website.com would load the site. presently, only www.website.com works.

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Old August 31st, 2002, 05:21 AM
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First off I don't know anything about iplanet. As far as the Apache way, you can set
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ServerName www.website.com
ServerAlias website.com
For the DNS way create an A record for website.com to point to the same IP address as www.website.com and given www.website.com is the default site of your iplanet server.
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Old September 1st, 2002, 02:59 AM
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I like FreeBSD do not know iplanet, but if you are usin bind then all you have to do is make sure the www and . entry are pinting to the same ip/webserver. That is half of the problem solved, you will just have to add a virual host in Iplanet and point it to the same directory.

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Old September 27th, 2002, 12:38 PM
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domain.com. IN A 192.168.0.1
www CNAME domain.com.
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Old September 27th, 2002, 06:27 PM
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domain.com. IN A 192.168.0.1
www CNAME domain.com.

No, there's no such of CNAME.. Use IN A record instead CNAME.

domain.com. IN A 192.168.0.1
www.domain.com. IN A 192.168.0.1
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Old September 30th, 2002, 11:39 AM
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sorry,

www IN CNAME domain.com.


works for me.
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Old October 7th, 2002, 09:05 AM
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>> works for me

It works for you but it doesn't always work for others who query your nameservers. If you want to increase the reliability just don't use CNAME from now on.
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Old October 7th, 2002, 11:17 AM
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...all the documentation talks about cname, why is it unreliable? I've never read any info about this.
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Old October 7th, 2002, 11:37 AM
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here and here and if you search google, the are dozen more.
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I wish more people would remember to include the non-www entries. It astounds me how many times I find large/successful/commercial sites that do not, and trying to access domain.com instead of www.domain.com gives a "host not found" error..

sloppy sloppy....
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Old October 21st, 2002, 11:17 AM
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as to the www. not being implemented...can't you have this done at the apache level too?
by adding the ServerAlias directive?

ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com


would you also need a www. dns record in addition to this?
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