Well, just to throw another technical thing onto the pile, this site is now a “Class B certified” no-www domain.

What this means is that all traffic to www.mysite.com now redirects to mysite.com. I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time now (I don’t understand why the major web servers don’t do it by default), but the no-www site had a nice snippet of apache config that’d do it for me. You might sympathise, things tend to get done quicker if I’ve got someone to copy off.

So if you’ve got any bookmarks or whatnot there’s no need to update them. In fact, this probably doesn’t affect you very much at all. I just thought it was worth pointing out that the www prefix is a relic of the old days and old ways, and sites that use it primarily are silly.

This article was posted on October 11, 2005, under Web Standards.

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10 Comments

  1. Tatey

    October 11, 2005

    my domain name register doesn’t let me point domain names without the www. to my dynamic ip. My site is still accessible from the non-www so I don’t see the problem :P

  2. Ashley

    October 11, 2005

    There probably really isn’t that much of a problem, it’s just annoying having to shell to http://www.tatey.com. :-P

    Still, once you’ve tried decent domain management you’ll never go back unless you don’t like it.

  3. soulfire

    October 12, 2005

    www is so oldhat, i think sites look much "cleaner" without double-ya-double-ya-double-ya on the front!!

    good move ashley :)

  4. Stoddy

    October 12, 2005

    sif, i’d rather have www in front. Makes it look like a real website! We’ve just come to acustomed to the www thing.

  5. Apollyon

    October 13, 2005

    Hmm.. you can set Apache to just accept WWW as like default subdomain… I know how todo it under Plesk, but no idea about the actual configuration of Apache.

  6. Ashley

    October 13, 2005

    Well, here’s the thing, Scott… I don’t know about you, but when i go to type up a web address I generally don’t bother typing up the www on the front. This becomes a problem when idiots who don’t know better, like ANZ (anz.com.au) for example, _require_ you to put in the WWW. It’s annoying and redundant, and while the idea of putting more emphasis on not using the ‘www’ might not necessarily be important, I think making me type an extra 4 characters on every web site I go to (And for what?) is a silly idea.

    …On that note so is having http://www.techtoucian.net and techtoucian.net deliver the same content… I don’t understand that bit at all. It just means Google indexes everything twice.

    See my point?

  7. Tatey

    October 14, 2005

    I bank with westpac

  8. Stoddy

    October 16, 2005

    yeah i see your point there. Thats why i have bookmarks :D

    National for me though.

  9. Stoddy

    October 16, 2005

    haha, its ironic that i just tried to goto http://www.cheapgames.com.au and it didn’t work but i went to cheapgames.com.au and it did :/

    DAMN YOU ASHLEY! :P

  10. Ashley

    October 16, 2005

    Haha. Forever will you be cursed by having URLs go bad. My work here is done. >:-D

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