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

["Ryan Czyz" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ACtually....

Let me give you an example...in a mailing list for a domain it is listed as
"list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx".  That isn't a big deal, because of the re-write
rules.  You can still send to "list@xxxxxxxxxx", BUT when you assign users
to the list, they can only post to the list (if you have it set up for
members only to post)when they have their email address set to
"user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx".  That obviously applies only to users that are within
that domain, or users that you enter as outside or external list users.

Basically I want to remove that www from the front of it in the settings.  I
don't think there is an easy way to do it, but there are other little pet
peaves I have with that setup, but I won't get into those now.

Kind of a silly request, but it is one of those things that is driving me
nuts.

Thanks for the quick response all.  Great message board.  You all are very
intelligent and very well learned in your craft.

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Kriwitsky
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:05 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] getting rid of "www" !!! Dan?!?!?


> 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.

--
Dan Kriwitsky



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