I’m trying to figure out why some websites seem to require the www and some (most) don’t. Both of the websites I’ve created in freeway have needed the www. Is there someway to change that? Most people don’t type that anymore and they often just give up, not knowing that sometimes you do have to type the www…
Thanks for your help!
Julia
http://www.thewhitehorsewhispers.com
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Julia,
By default, most web servers will serve a website either with or without the www. beginning. For example, both of these links will work:
The biggest problem here is that a search engine will likely find the website both with and without the www, view them as duplicate pages, and split the page rank between the two (not good).
The easiest way to fix this is via a .htaccess file. I’ve written up a introduction to this configuration file - complete with a snippet to redirect www. to non www. - here: http://calebgrove.com/articles/understanding-htaccess-for-humans
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