WEFT -> Embedded fonts don't appear for http://website.com

http://www.website.com works http://website.com doesn't

[lioness]

When using embedded fonts, does anybody know why an embedded font gets downloaded correctly for http: //www.example.com but does not get downloaded when the user types in http: //example.com?

[edited by: tedster at 10:42 pm (utc) on Aug. 14, 2002]
[edit reason] change to "example" [/edit]

[lioness]

Whoops! I should have checked that URL before I posted it. I was trying to use a generic domain name, not that specific URL.

[dhdweb]

I would say the server is not set up right.

You can also do a mod re-write to redirect website.com to www.website.com

Info on mod-rewrite can be found at [apache.org ]

dhdweb

[lioness]

Interesting. I notice in google, the site is listed as http: //example.com while others are listed as http: //www.example.com .

[edited by: tedster at 10:46 pm (utc) on Aug. 14, 2002]

[lioness]

Can anyone give me more info on how the server is not set up right?

Thanks!

[tedster]

I think you can solve this directly with WEFT.

A WEFT generated .eot file includes an "allowed roots" section. You can include both versions of your URL in there, plus any mirror sites you may use and even the numeric IP address.

The most common problems relate to incorrect allowed roots. For example you may have included [example.com...] as the only allowed root in your eot, but tried to access your page via [example.com...] The missing 'www' is important...you should recreate the eot's ...

Reference: Microsoft WEFT Troubleshooting [microsoft.com]

[lioness]

Yup, you are right. That did the trick! Thank you!

I'm still curious as to why this particular site shows up in google as [example.com...] instead of [example.com...] . I have compared it to other sites I have and the only difference w/ this site is that I used no MS Frontpage publishing features w/ it. With the others, I first used FP publishing, then slowly removed all the FP stuff.

[tedster]

Google builds its index by crawling the web, MUCH more so than from submissions. I'd say there are some links to your site that are minus the "www" and that's how Google first located it.