Anyways, I was wondering how I make my site http://www.example.com instead of http://example.com (which it is right now).
Also, are there any advantages to one or the other.
Thanks
[edited by: Webwork at 4:59 am (utc) on April 27, 2006]
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Below is an example of the settings:
[Host] [Type] [Value] [MX]
*.xyzdomain.com CNAME xyzdomain.com
mail.xyzdomain.com MX mail.xyzdomain.com
xyzdomain.com A 123.123.123.1
The entry with the wildcard should make your domain work with the www (I think)
FYI - if you need to be able to maintain your own DNS records, try www.everydns.net - free and easy to use.
Also many registrars are offering more control over DNS than they used to, so you might have the tools built-in with your domain.
Hope that helps.
It's (slightly) better to have two A records (pointing to the same address) than to use a CNAME for the www. The CNAME requires an extra DNS lookup.
*.example.com will cause ANYTHING.example.com to go to your web site. You may not want that.
Keep in mind the SEO implications of this. Pick either one to be your "primary" domain. The other is just a convenience. You need to set-up your web server to do a 301 redirect from the secondary domain to the primary. Otherwise, Google and other search engines will penalize your for "duplicate content". This will result in a slight delay on a user's first access in a session to your secondary domain. but this is unavoidable if you want to avoid the search engine penalty.
example.com. IN A 123.456.123.456
www IN A 123.456.123.456
Note the "." on the end of example.com. You will need to double-check with your DNS provider, as there's some variation in the user interfaces between providers. Without the dot, you would be specifying the address for example.com.example.com! With some providers, you would leave the name blank for this entry.
It's unfortunate, but it's hard to give examples, because there is so much inconsistency between different DNS providers UIs.
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