Comments on: Blogging Discussion: Do you use WWW?

By: Ebook

Ebook — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:39:42 +0000

I love that WP automatically redirects whatever version (www. or non-www.) of the domain is instantiated in the settings.

thank’s

Armentho’s

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:27:46 +0000

@ Jeffro – Yeah, I am a Performancing reader and saw that! Thanks for the heads up though, as I’ve been meaning to check on how that turned out.

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:38:38 +0000

Hey Kyle, wanted to say that I borrowed your topic of discussion and created a poll on Performancing asking if people used WWW or not http://performancing.com/do-you-use-www-your-domain-name the results are almost 50-50.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:42:32 +0000

I don’t use it. And I find it annoying when webhosts don’t setup their server to resolve the domain without www. in front of it.

I knew some guys running an ISP in California and none of their webhosting clients domains were setup to work without www. in front of the domain name. I had some clients who hosted with them and I would call and bitch at the network admin to get it fixed. I thought it was just plain lazy to be honest. They said their script they used to setup the domain wasn’t programmed to do it and they never took the time to fix it.

Either way, most people probably never noticed and I imagine the average end user types www. automatically.

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:19:52 +0000

Hi Doug,

Sorry for the comment form problems. A fix is in the works

It shows up correctly when I edit the comment, but it keeps breaking. When I added the code command it still removes the $ sign, so hopefully I can get a fix in place soon. In the meantime, your verbal explanation should do the trick.

Thanks!

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:13:03 +0000

Nope, the dollar sign got stripped again. Maybe Kyle could fix it? (Sorry for the multiple posts.)

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:08:12 +0000

Seems my code was altered by the comment form. There should be a dollar sign before the ’1′ after the last domain name, so it would read out loud: “domain name, slash, dollar sign, one” I hope that’s not too confusing!

And thanks, Big Blogger. Yes, please change the domain name to your own; don’t redirect your visitors to my site!

Let me try one more time:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

By: Kolia Shlapak

Kolia Shlapak — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:32:50 +0000

I never use www))

By: David Lau

David Lau — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:21:15 +0000

I’m still use the www,it seems to i should remove it.

By: Tim Norton

Tim Norton — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:08:17 +0000

Kyle, I don’t use the www because not using it makes the domain look shorter in my opinion, and shorter domains have more authority(not from search engines, just visitor impression), generally speaking. That’s my thought!