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Domain times out when no www is prefixed.

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  • 11-05-2014 4:54pm
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    Media999
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know why a page would timeout when contacting through domain.com instead of www.domain.com

    Ive just migrated to a new dedicated server.

    Could it be the htaccess file or the domain setup?

    Only IP was changed from what i can see.


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    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    DNS/webserver not setup properly

    (this can break auth stuff if your visitors are a bit inconsistent -visit one day with www and the next day without and then whine about

    it , you could redirect it, but there still may be whining )


    apache , tell it to serve pages when asked without the www :

    <VirtualHost *>
    ServerName domain.com
    ServerAlias www.domain.com
    # ...
    </VirtualHost>

    IIS sort of craic :

    http://support.simpledns.com/kb/a87/configure-web-site-access-with-without-www-domain-name.aspx


    and add a line into the dns so you have
    www.domain.com (yip thats us )

    domain.com (yip thats us too )


    i'm sure there is many other better ways
    .


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    Media999
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Media999


    Which record specifically? All i did was change the IP.


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    Jamie_
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Jamie_


    It's not the DNS is it? You need to edit the .htaccess file to add a redirect.


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    Media999
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Media999


    had this in HTaccess for literally years now and its worked fine.

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

    All i did was change IP to a different server.

    DNS Propagation maybe?

    Any ideas what file permission the htaccess should have. I have 644.


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    Media999
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Media999


    Seems to work now. Htaccess was having no effect until i downloaded. saved and re uploaded.

    File type maybe? Filezilla seemed to fix it.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Do you have A records for both domain.tld and www.domain.tld?
    Even if the vhost in Apache isn't configured for both domain.tld and www.domain.tld you'd get to the server if there were A records - though it wouldn't load the vhost unless you're on a dedicated IP

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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,792 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Blacknight wrote: »
    Do you have A records for both domain.tld and www.domain.tld?

    Or an A for one and a CNAME for the other?


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    Media999
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Media999


    Blacknight wrote: »
    Do you have A records for both domain.tld and www.domain.tld?
    Even if the vhost in Apache isn't configured for both domain.tld and www.domain.tld you'd get to the server if there were A records - though it wouldn't load the vhost unless you're on a dedicated IP

    Seems to be fine now.

    A record for www and domain.com and MX record.

    Then what i mentioned previously in the HTaccess which redirects non-www to www.

    Any other implications with SEO or anything im not thinking of from this setup? I also have error pages redirect to root.


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