My website is accessible without www in the front of it in Firefox and Safari however for some reason it is not in Chrome. Is there anything that I need to change on my website host or in the html to make it accessible?
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If your website is not already set up to do so, you'll need to update your web host to respect requests for http://your-website.com as well as http://www.your-website.com.
Firefox (and apparently Safari) will make a second request to a URL using or removing the www. in front of it if they receive a 404 error before displaying any resulting errors to the user. (And if the alternate URL works they will display the results of the second request and silently drop the results of the first [the 404 error].) Most, if not all other browsers will just display the first 404 error page.
What web server are you running on?
Sean Vieira
2010-05-04 18:06:34
Nice factoid. Didn't know this one. :)
Nathan Taylor
2010-05-04 18:08:21
Currently using homestead.com, also thanks for the quick response
Matt
2010-05-04 18:14:46
@Matt Excellent! Always glad to help.
Sean Vieira
2010-05-04 18:21:22