[BNM] [Fwd: www or no www]

[Danny Hope]

2008/10/21 Mat Walker <lists at four0four.net>:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        www or no www
> Date:   Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:54:49 +0100
> From:   Beth Granter <bethgranter at yahoo.co.uk>
> Reply-To:       beth at bethgranter.com
> To:     bnmlist-owner at brightonnewmedia.org
>
> My new workplace's website doesn't work without the www
> (http://www.twentyfirst.com <http://www.twentyfirst.com/> works,
> http://twentyfirst.com <http://twentyfirst.com/> doesn't) and I've been
> put in charge of managing a rebuild of the site... so this is something
> I'd like to change. Our IT team have told me that it is bad practice to
> not use the www, and because we host the site ourselves and the domain
> without the www is used for our mailserver (or something - there was
> some techy reason that apparently we cannot make it work, which I didn't
> totally get). So if anyone could give me their vote on whether it is
> good or bad practice to have no www in your URL functioning and why, it
> would be much appreciated.

You should aaccept requests with AND without the 'www'.

If someone goes to the 'www' version, you should forward them to the
version that doesn't have it.

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Regards,
Danny Hope
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07595 226 792