RE: [cobalt-users] getting rid of "www" !!! Dan?!?!?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a Raq4.  I am hating the fact that it prefixes every
> domain name with
> "www".  Does anyone know of anyway that you can get rid of this in a
> reasonable manner?  I mean how many people really send email to
> user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx??? I know that I can add the alias when I create the
> domain so that it will accept mail on user@xxxxxxxxxx, but everywhere else
> (list server, virtusertable, etc...) there is this aweful reference to
> "www.domain.com".  Any ideas on this one???
>

It's done in the rewrite rules in httpd.conf.

Personally, I wouldn't mess with it. The server just rewrites requests for
http://domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/ and saves you bandwidth. If
someone visits a site at http://www.domain.com/file.html and the server
allows them to come back to http://domain.com/file.html without the rewrite,
the browser doesn't recognize the images and file as cached and it's
downloaded again. I prefer it this way. If you mean people just can't get to
the site as http://domain.com/ you're missing an A record in the DNS for
domain.com --> IP address.

IIRC, if you mess with the rewrite rules, it affects /admin and /siteadmin.

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Dan Kriwitsky