[BNM] [Fwd: www or no www]

[delarge]

yeah - what Remy said... redirect to the non-www = lovely tidy short urls as
well

Although I would have used the term 'balderdash'



On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Remy Sharp <remysharp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> >
> > Our IT team have told me that it is bad practice to
> > not use the www
>
>
> Poppycock!
>
> Support both domains with a simple htaccess change:
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mysite\.com$ [NC]
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
>
> For your IT team:
>
> 1) When giving out a domain - do you proceed it with WWW?
> 2) Do you realise that WWW is actually longer to say that World Wide Web,
> given it's 9 (damn) syllables long!
> 3) Pronouncing it 'dub-dub-dub' makes you sound like you probably shouldn't
> be managing servers.
> 4) Bottom line is you should support both, but redirect on to a single
> version either www. or not (but without makes more sense).
>
> That's my tuppence worth, plus, I got to use 'poppycock' in an email!
>
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