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domain.com!= www.domain.com

Is it possible?

         

dvduval

5:34 pm on Jun 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Is it possible for domain.com to point to a different place than wwwDOTdomain.com?

scockerham

5:44 pm on Jun 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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For my own understanding could you please be more descriptive in what you are asking? I realize that it is probably some code thing and probably enough information for most. Alas it is not enough for me to understand. Are we talking code or are we talking DNS?

sullen

6:05 pm on Jun 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Yes it is possible.

Just set the host headers accordingly on the sites in question. But some web control panels do not allow it - you may need access to IIS or Apache. In that case you could always redirect people via script.

dvduval

6:08 pm on Jun 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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...and this would be something more typical of a windows server?
I saw a site the other day where domain.com took me to Squirrel Mail and wwwDOTdomain.com took me to the site I was looking for. I found this peculiar.

marcs

6:09 pm on Jun 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Simple change the A record for the www. version in DNS and now domain.com and www.domain.com have different IP's.

Other non-DNS based solutions also exist.