domain names, web standards, etc

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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Subject: domain names, web standards, etc
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Patrick Fleming wrote:

> > It actually takes both DNS and Apache being set up correctly to make
> > http://domain.tld work like http://www.domain.tld.
> >
> I think a simple CNAME entry would do the trick.
> domain.com CNAME www.domain.com


If you are serving multiple hosts (virtual hosts), Apache needs to know.
Usually by using the "ServerAlias" directive.

But as mentioned earlier, giving a 301 redirect may be better.

Here is a webpage about this:
Solving Google Page Rank problems with a 301 Redirect
http://www.aplawrence.com/Unixart/googlepagerank301.htm

Some docs are at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/