surf mydomain.com vs www.mydomain.com

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Aug 15 14:58:59 UTC 2001


In article <9ld2fp$iu9 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
those who know me have no need of my name  <not-a-real-address at usa.net> wrote:
>
><9lbomj$daj at pub3.rc.vix.com> divulged:
>>In article <9lbn3j$d0g at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Brandon Yu  <byu at Emode.com> wrote:
>
>>>If a user were to put in their web browser "mydomain.com" and I wanted to
>>>re-direct them to  <http://www.mydomain.com> http://www.mydomain.com how
>>>could I achieve this properly? 
>
>>Just put an A record in the domain for mydomain.com, 
>
>though with non-address based virtual servers all the rage these days 
>this might not work.

Well, of course he has to add it to the VirtualHost setting in the web
server as well.  I was only answering the DNS part.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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