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cant access my site without adding www

Jun 13, 2007 6:48AM PDT

in IE7, i have to put in www. to get to my website, in firefox, i need not add it, how can i fix this, am not that good in url stuff, could it be cuz i registered the domain with an australian company and i'm on US internet backbone???

help......

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(NT) And what is your website?
Jun 14, 2007 9:49PM PDT
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portmorereggae.com
Jun 16, 2007 2:16PM PDT

didn't wanna post it in original post, wasn't sure if i could, as i sed b4, it wont work in IE7 unless i add www.

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Good question.
Jun 16, 2007 11:36PM PDT

Same with me here.

My employer has several sites, all located in The Netherlands. If I type zester.nl in IE it links through to www.zester.nl. If I type sanoma-uitgevers.nl it doesn't link through and comes on the search page. In Firefox both function as expected. Never knew that.

I'll ask our webmaster if he can explain this behaviour. If I learn it from him, I'll post it here.

Kees

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The answer from our Internet specialist at work.
Jun 19, 2007 6:17AM PDT

It's a setting on the server, so you should contact your hosting provider.

The official w3c-way, he says, to do this is to come back with www.xxx.yy for xxx.yy if this setting is on, and to return a page not found (404) error if it is off.
Apparently, the makers of firefox thought they knew better than w3c and programmed firefox to try the www-variant nonetheless and all on its own. After all, it could be ftp.xxx.yy also (although that's less likely), so there's a good reason to have it configurable.

Hope this helps.


Kees

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It didn't work for IE6
Jun 18, 2007 10:46PM PDT

It took me to my search default(Google)

I then could use Google to get there.

Work great in Firefox.

I am in Pennsylvania, USA


Rick