domain names without the www 2

[keak]

Hi there,
I have a site and when I type in the browser "

http://www.domain.com"

it works file, but if I type "

http://domain.com"

it doesn't get to the site,

Does anyone know if we can set this in Apache somewhere? or is this done with our DNS service?

Any input will be great help!

my apache's config for the site is something like the following now:

<VirtualHost 216.187.84.13:80>
        ServerName      [URL unfurl="true"]www.domain.com[/URL]
        ServerAdmin     webmaster@domain.com
        DocumentRoot    /var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/www.domain.com/htdocs/[/URL]
        DirectoryIndex  index.php
        CustomLog       /var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/www.domain.com/logs/access_log[/URL] combined
        ErrorLog        /var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/www.domain.com/logs/error_log[/URL]
        ScriptAlias     /cgi-bin/ /var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/www.domain.com/cgi-bin/[/URL]
        Redirect        /members [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain2.com[/URL]
        ErrorDocument 403 /join.php
        ErrorDocument 404 /join.php
        <Directory /var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/www.domain.com/htdocs/mgp>[/URL]
                Options Indexes
        </Directory>
        <Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin>
                AuthName "PHPMYAdmin Protected Area"
                AuthType Basic
                AuthUserFile /usr/share/phpmyadmin/.htpasswd
                <Limit GET POST>
                        require valid-user
                </Limit>
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/www.domain.com/htdocs/admin>[/URL]
                AuthName "Domain Site Administration Area"
                AuthType Basic
                AuthUserFile /var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/www.domain.com/htdocs/admin/.htpasswd[/URL]
                <Limit GET POST>
                        require valid-user
                </Limit>
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

 

[mbrooks]

Add this to your VirtualHost

ServerAlias [i]domain.com[/i]

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[keak]

thanks for the reply mbrooks!

that didn't seem to do the trick however ....
I still seem to get a page not found when I get that,
I have sub-domains set up too, so for example

http://shop.domain.com

or

http://test.domain.com

So perhaps it may be somewhere in the DNS setting?
I do see an entry of the following and I think this handles the "

http://www.domain.com"

sub-domain IN type points to
www A 43.102.292.393


so do I need a sub domain that is empty so say
sub-domain IN type points to
A 43.102.292.393

for "

http://domain.com"

to work perhaps ?

 

[mbrooks]

Before you mess with DNS on another machine do an nslookup

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[danomac]

As mbrooks said, do an `nslookup domain.org` first. If it says it is not found, then you will need to add an A record. My provider requires a record with the at '@' symbol in order to resolve the domain name, i.e.

subdomain IN type points to
--------- ------- ----------------
@         A       <ip>
www       A       <ip>

for that to work.

 

[keak]

Thanks guys,
Those were all good points, it ended up being that the '@' address was pointing to an old ip and thats why the

http://domain.org

was not working correctly.

Many thanks!