My URL doesn't work without WWW

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

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Ok, so here's my problem.

http://www.the-iblog.com works fine.

http://the-iblog.com doesn't.

Now I suspect that the reason is something to do with Google Apps. When I bought the domain through Blogger, it came with google apps. The URL without the WWW is trying to take you to my Google Apps start page, which I have disabled.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to sort this out?

Thanks.
 
DNS is pointing each domain at a different IP address:

You will need to set up the-iblog.com to point at the same IP address as www.the-iblog.com. Do you have a DNS control panel as part of your hosting ?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\hodsonb>ping www.the-iblog.com

Pinging ghs.l.google.com [72.14.207.121] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 72.14.207.121: bytes=32 time=-25ms TTL=244
Reply from 72.14.207.121: bytes=32 time=268ms TTL=244
Reply from 72.14.207.121: bytes=32 time=269ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 72.14.207.121:
Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 268ms, Maximum = -25ms, Average = 170ms
Control-C
^C
C:\Documents and Settings\hodsonb>ping the-iblog.com

Pinging the-iblog.com [64.233.179.121] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.233.179.121: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=240
Reply from 64.233.179.121: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=240
Reply from 64.233.179.121: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=240
Reply from 64.233.179.121: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=240

Ping statistics for 64.233.179.121:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 114ms, Maximum = 116ms, Average = 115ms

C:\Documents and Settings\hodsonb>
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Mammalian said:
im lost, surely the www, as well as the http:// is automatically added by the browers and nothing to do with your site?
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Nope. www is just an unnecessary subdomain which for some reason has become widely accepted as a normal part of every web address. Most servers will just ignore the www and serve whatever's at the root domain, though some will behave differently.
 
uchuff said:
For SEO purposes you probably want non www URLs to 301 to www URLs.
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Or the other way around. I personally find the www. silly and do a 301 redirect to blah.com from www.blah.com

http://no-www.org

The VirtualHost directive for my domain, using mod_rewrite for the redirect.

Code: 
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/cheezyblog.net/docs
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.cheezyblog\.net$ [NC]
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cheezyblog.net$1 [R=301,L]
    </IfModule>
    <Location ~ "\.svn">
        Order allow,deny
        Deny from all
        Satisfy All
    </Location>
    ServerName cheezyblog.net
    ServerAlias www.cheezyblog.net
    ErrorLog /usr/local/www/logs/cheezyblog.net.error.log
    CustomLog /usr/local/www/logs/cheezyblog.net.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
 
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random but, thanks for your blog, just found that Apple is opening a store in Liverpool!

Going to apply for a job there for over summer, get some money before I go on holiday !
 
tsinc80697 said:
random but, thanks for your blog, just found that Apple is opening a store in Liverpool!

Going to apply for a job there for over summer, get some money before I go on holiday !
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LOL, glad to be of service !

Make sure you visit again ;)
 
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