www missing

[RexJacobus]

If someone types

http://www.myURL.com/Match/index.html

the correct page loads and the url says

http://www.myURL.com/Match/index.html

FINE.

If someone types

http://www.myURL.com/Match/

the correct page loads and the url says

http://www.myURL.com/Match/

FINE.

But if someone leaves off the last slash and just types www.myURL.com/Match the correct page loads but the url now says

http://myURL.com/Match/

WHY?

My boss really doesn't like this and I have no idea why the

http://www goes

missing.

Any suggestions?

jim

 

[trollacious]

Your web server or host is set up to handle things that way. I'm not sure what the problem is, though, as long as people get to the correct page. "My boss really doesn't like this" is making a mountain out of half a grain of sand.

Lee

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

My boss really doesn't like this

Put a copy of the HTTP specs in front of him and tell him to read them ;-)



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[Stretchwickster]

Better still, as trollacious implied, contact your web host/web server administrator about it.

Clive

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[jstreich]

http://www comes

from the day when there would be a server for the World Wide Web (

http://www.),

one or two for mail (mail, pop, smtp, imap) and a number of other servers on the domain, sharing a DNS. Now days most people, like your company, put there DNS to point to the webserver itself, so the machine with subdomain

http://www isn't

really there. The

http://www is

a virtual subdomain that forwards to the domain, and this was done because of people like your boss who got so used to using the www.

With the way your server is set up if someone types in either myUrl.com or

http://www.myURL.com

... so you catch more visitors. If your boss wants to limit visitors, that's his perogative and we can tell you how, but I thought the purpose of site is to have as many visitors (potential customers) seeing the site as possible.

I'm guessing this is Apache? If so look for your apache.conf and look for options about virtual subdomain and the term www. The conf file should have comments telling you how to edit the line. I'm guessing it should be as simple as switching a true for false, but it's been a while since I played with Apache's configuration.

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[RexJacobus]

If anyone else has this problem it was fixed by switching the UseCanonical setting in the httpd.conf

jim