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virus187

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Apr 23, 2009
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Hi

I am using iweb and have uploaded my site to godaddy via cyberduck which is all fine but when i type in my website URL without the www. it shows a slighty different version of the page (dont want this) than me entering www. You will know what I mean when you go to the 2 links below

www.beats2buy.com - GOOD

beats2buy.com - (Same URL but with the www.) - BAD

Any suggestions on how to get the same thing with or without the www.?

PS - there is no index page or welcome page. I jsut have made a home.html page, could this be the reason, do i need to rename the home.html to index.html?

Thanks

Virus 187
 
Besides the Ws I can't see a difference. Maybe your cache is not up to date with the page. You can set things so only with or without the Ws will be used. This is setup on the web host though, usually through the configuration somewhere.
 
Hi AngelWatt

Thanks for the reply,The thing is I tried this on someone elses computer at work via internet explorer and the same thing is happening, so you say its ok??

the version of IE is 6.0.2

How do I go about the comment you mentioned relating to my host (go daddy)

Thanks
Virus187
 
virus187 said:
Thanks for the reply,The thing is I tried this on someone elses computer at work via internet explorer and the same thing is happening, so you say its ok??

the version of IE is 6.0.2

How do I go about the comment you mentioned relating to my host (go daddy)
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I'm using Firefox 3.5b4 on Windows and the site looked the same with or without the www. Can you describe the difference you're seeing?

I've never been with GoDaddy, so can't tell you where to go specifically to make the change I mentioned. Hopefully someone else here can give that info.

Edit: Just tried with IE 6.0 and they look the same.
 
You could put a .htaccess file to redirect all non-www adresses to the www version :

HTML: 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourhost.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourhost.com/$1 [L,R=301]
 
Hi Tod

Thanks for the info, ill try this. sorry to sound silly but i put godaddy where youve put yourhost?
 
Hi Design-IS

sorry how do i add an image without entering a URL in the message box?
 
The IP is the same for the domain name with and without "www" so we know traffic for both is going to the same server (assuming no misconfig on the OP's network). I examined the sites through my MSIE and it's exactly the same. I even compared source code, no differences.

Nothing to fix from what I can tell, the OP must have a cached copy in their browser or at the network level in their proxy or firewall if it exists - and usually the latter resolves itself within 72 hours of the last DNS change if any.

Note: The .htaccess only works if the webhost has Apache and they've enabled .htaccess for your host. If so, replace yourhost.com in the example with beats2buy.com but after my testing, nothing wrong to fix so it's not necessary in my opinion.

-jim
 
virus187 said:
Hi

I am using iweb and have uploaded my site to godaddy via cyberduck which is all fine but when i type in my website URL without the www. it shows a slighty different version of the page (dont want this) than me entering www. You will know what I mean when you go to the 2 links below

www.beats2buy.com - GOOD

beats2buy.com - (Same URL but with the www.) - BAD

Any suggestions on how to get the same thing with or without the www.?

PS - there is no index page or welcome page. I jsut have made a home.html page, could this be the reason, do i need to rename the home.html to index.html?

Thanks

Virus 187
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Code: 
MikhailT-MBP:~ mikhailt$ dig beats2buy.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> beats2buy.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52711
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;beats2buy.com.            IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
beats2buy.com.        3581    IN    A    97.74.144.34

;; Query time: 2704 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 30 13:42:25 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 47

MikhailT-MBP:~ mikhailt$ dig www.beats2buy.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> www.beats2buy.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31205
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.beats2buy.com.        IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.beats2buy.com.    3570    IN    CNAME    beats2buy.com.
beats2buy.com.        3570    IN    A    97.74.144.34

;; Query time: 13 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 30 13:42:36 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 65

MikhailT-MBP:~ mikhailt$

www is cnaming to beats2buy.com, so it is working fine on my end. It is more likely your cache or the web server doesn't have the correct config.
 
TodVader said:
You could put a .htaccess file to redirect all non-www adresses to the www version :

HTML: 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourhost.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourhost.com/$1 [L,R=301]
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This will also have the benefit of not splitting your domain traffic (traffic being split between a www. and non-www. version can lower your search engine rankings).
 
virus187 said:
Hi Tod

Thanks for the info, ill try this. sorry to sound silly but i put godaddy where youve put yourhost?
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-You create a file named .htaccess (nothing before the .)
-You put it at the root of your website
-If your site is www.MySite.com, you replace "yourhost" by "mysite".

For your situation, here's your code:
HTML: 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^beats2buy.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.beats2buy.com/$1 [L,R=301]
 
ToVader

Thank you and everyone else for your input, ToVader I will try your method now. Can I create this file is Dreamweaver CS3 and then rename it .htaccess?

Also anyone reading this i have found a new problem with the same issue

if you go to beats2buy.com try click on the menu links and see if they work and let me know

I know that the menu links work for www.beats2buy.com but try the other and let me know

PS - I have made a intro page to the site, very clean and simple but why is that when I click on enter everything else still takes alittle time to load? I thought the intro page was to "distract the user" whilst the homepage loads up

Thanks
Virus 187
 
Ok tried this and it doesnt rename the URL to www.beats2buy.com

here is how i did it

i opended text edit, then added the code, then renamed it to .htaccess but it said something about . files being hidden so therefore i wouldnt be able to find it if i wanted to upload it onto go daddy, SO i made a folder called ht and then saved it into that and uploaded the folder to godaddy.

Why isnt it working or does it take time?

Virus 187
 
You need to have the file in the root of your site (www.beats2buy.com, not www.beats2buy.com/ht) and it needs to be called .htaccess. Try uploading it as htaccess and renaming it once it's up. Depending on how your doing it (web access, FTP client etc.) there may also be a way to turn on the ability to see hidden files.

The issue with your navigation where it won't work on beats2buy.com may be that it's a flash file and something is a bit weird in it somewhere...
 
virus187 said:
Ok tried this and it doesnt rename the URL to www.beats2buy.com

here is how i did it

i opended text edit, then added the code, then renamed it to .htaccess but it said something about . files being hidden so therefore i wouldnt be able to find it if i wanted to upload it onto go daddy, SO i made a folder called ht and then saved it into that and uploaded the folder to godaddy.

Why isnt it working or does it take time?

Virus 187
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Files starting with a . are hidden files in Linux (which is probably what your host is using) and Unix, which is the core of OS X (hence the warning).

As design-is said, try saving the file under a different name and uploading, then changing the name with Cyberduck.

If you need to make further edits once it's there, if you install TextWrangler (free) then this will work with Cyberduck and allow you to browse to the .htaccess file, right/control click and open it directly for editing (actually it downloads a temporary copy, saves it locally and then uploads once you've saved, but it all happens in the background).

If you do download .htaccess with Cyberduck, be careful to "download as..." and not just "download". Otherwise it will download the file still called .htaccess, which OS X will promptly hide away from you...

Oh, and make sure Cyberduck is set to show hidden files (Preferences:Browser).
 
Can't you just turn on hidden files on your mac and then upload it like a regular file by FTP?

To do this, open your terminal and enter those commands:

HTML: 
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

Hidden files will now be visible. Replace TRUE with FALSE to put it back like it was after if you find them anoying.
 
TodVader said:
Can't you just turn on hidden files on your mac and then upload it like a regular file?

To do this, open your terminal and enter those commands:

HTML: 
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

Hidden files will now be visible. Replace TRUE with FALSE to put it back like it was after if you find them anoying.
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Indeed you can, or you can use Tinkertool to achieve the same result. I just find the Cyberduck/TextWrangler method to be simpler.
 
design-is said:
The issue with your navigation where it won't work on beats2buy.com may be that it's a flash file and something is a bit weird in it somewhere...
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Good point. I wish to expand on this.

Unless absolutely required, developers should rarely hard code domains into their source. Hoping the OP didn't do that here in their Flash.

It's much easier often to use server global variables, i.e. in PHP with Apache web server $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] will equal www.yourdomain.com typically. That's why they're there. Also, always use relative paths for links within your own site, i.e. use "/" for root, or "/mypage.html" for mypage.html off the root, or "/path_to/mypage.html" if elsewhere. Not, "http://www.yourdomain.com/mypage.html" in your href for an anchor tag. Same for linking images, XML files, stylesheets and so on. This obviously pays dividends if the domain name changes over time.

-jim
 
TodVader said:
Can't you just turn on hidden files on your mac and then upload it like a regular file by FTP?

To do this, open your terminal and enter those commands:

HTML: 
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

Hidden files will now be visible. Replace TRUE with FALSE to put it back like it was after if you find them anoying.
Click to expand...

FourCandles said:
Indeed you can, or you can use Tinkertool to achieve the same result. I just find the Cyberduck/TextWrangler method to be simpler.
Click to expand...

FWIW I've just noticed that TextWrangler can open local hidden files directly:
File > Open Hidden...
 
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