[wplug] webservers and "www" prefix

Matthew Danish mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Sep 10 18:45:00 EDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:23:36PM -0400, Russ Schneider wrote:
> Ok, I have a webserver going, but when trying to get to it, URLs have to 
> be http://domainname.com.  http://www.domainname.com do not work.
> 
> I poked around apache's conf files but couldn't find anything.
> 
> What do I do so that www.domainname.com works?

You need a DNS entry for www.domainname.com.  If it is an Apache vhost,
you also need to add a ServerAlias www.domainname.com entry to the
virtualhost section.

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