That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.
Subdomain Me - add www with an A record
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#12If you have Godaddy, they allow you to forward your domain to www for free. I do that with my GAE apps.
Thanks, I didn't realize that. I've been using godaddy for eons and have looked for this feature on their confusing site before. I'll look again.
Let me know when you find out how to do it. I have my www. subdomain pointing to Google Sites, and I'd love for the naked domain to go there too.
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#13That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.
That's the way it should be. It's a shame the www convention took hold.
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#14That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.
Google AppEngine does not support naked domains unfortunately.
At least, that is what I use it for myself.
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#15It's a pretty clever idea, I've come across loads of sites that have a naked domain but no www.
As clever as it is though, it serves no real world purpose, anyone clever enough to setup up their own domain will be able to set up a www subdomain, be it dns level or using a 301 redirect.
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#16That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.
I may be wrong here, but I think there's one good reason to use anything.example.com instead of example.com: with the naked domain, you can't have a separate domain for static assets which the client doesn't send the cookie to (for performance improvement). If you set a cookie with the domain example.com, it will still get sent to static.example.com.
Granted, you could use examplecdn.com or something, but then you have to register and manage more domains.
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#17That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.
I may be wrong here, but I think there's one good reason to use anything.example.com instead of example.com: with the naked domain, you can't have a separate domain for static assets which the client doesn't send the cookie to (for performance improvement). If you set a cookie with the domain example.com, it will still get sent to static.example.com. Granted, you could use examplecdn.com or something, but then you ha…
Isn't that what the domain portion of the set-cookie header is for?
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#19What the website advocates, redirecting site traffic through them, is a very bad idea. If you don't know why this might be so, stop and ask yourself why you are in charge of modifying the zone records.
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#20That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.
only reason www is usefull is because common cms (forums, blogs, comments, ....) convert www.example.com to a clickable link, but example.com not. yeah stupidbutthats the way it is.....