http://name.com rather than http://www.name.com (shared IP address)

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http://name.com rather than http://www.name.com (shared IP address)

Can the domain name without the www resolve to my www site?

CliffS

3:56 pm on Nov 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

My web site is hosted on an NT server. It does not have a unique IP address. I would like the site to come up when people type in the domain name without the www. Currently, a splash page comes up with links to my site and another site that shares the same IP address. My host does not think it is possible for the sites to come up independently when the www is omitted. Do you know whether there is a better fix? Thank you.

lorax

4:15 pm on Nov 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

I'm not sure why the can't! I believe it's a simple matter of adding a record for the DN without the www and pointing it to the same webdir. It may be more a matter of they don't want to.

Shakil

6:55 pm on Nov 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

should not be a problem at all.

tell your host that.

Shak

rfgdxm1

8:53 am on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

Your host is clueless. Get a better one.

DaveN

9:09 am on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

simple answer is yes and it's very easy

in IIS Right click on the website name

Select Properties
Select Advanced Properties for IP address
click ADD

leave IP address = ALL unassigned
Set TCP port - 80
Host Header Name - yoursite.com or dev.yoursite.com

you can have has many has you want.

DaveN

dingman

3:54 pm on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

In Apache,

<VirtualHost www.example.com>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
AnyOtherDirectivesYouWant
</VirtualHost>

CliffS

5:06 pm on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

THANK Y0U! I forwarded the last two replies to my web site host and one of them caused my site to come up without having to type in the www.

dingman

6:35 pm on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

You're welcome. I must say I'd find it rather disturbing if my web hosting provider didn't know how to run their system well enough to do that without getting configuration instructions from its subscribers. I'm glad your site is working as you wanted it to now, though.

lorax

6:55 pm on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

Ditto dingman!

Lisa

2:12 am on Nov 22, 2002 (gmt 0)

.NAME doesn't allow www.
So if you register firstname.lastname.NAME, you can't have www.lastname.name.
You would be able to have www.firstname.lastname.name
But all .NAME domains are three deep.

All other gTLDs (for the moment) and ccTLDs would allow you to do this.