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They should just do it with .htaccess, or w/e server thing they use.

um.. htaccess has nothing to do with this whatsoever.

They should use htaccess to force a redirect to www or no-www. Allowing both causes SEO problems.

Optimally no-www would be the best:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]


Edit: I guess htaccess did have something to do with this after all. Odd, you were wrong.

There isn't a CNAME record for the TLD so it won't ever get to the webserver.

As tyryl said, um.. htaccess has nothing to do with this whatsoever.

Whatever, it was a big deal.

User first needs to connect to http server before htaccess even begins to be involved.

"Edit: I guess htaccess did have something to do with this after all. Odd, you were wrong."

? yes, clearly it's the case that someone who's been doing networking since before you were probably born is wrong about some basic issue. try again.

You're like 20? how could you be doing networking since before I was born?

Also it is related, you just chose not to admit it. I'm ok with that, don't embarrass yourself in front of your friends loosing your cool.

No, it is not related at all.

I don't think you understand what related means. It's ok, English is not all our first language.

No, it is actually not related in any sense of that word, because web server is already working fine and is properly configured and the problem is that clients have absolutely no idea where it is.

So it's not related because it's not the problem? I think it's related because the two work together to complete a goal. I'd call that related.

They don't work together. The goal is accomplished by DNS only, htaccess is nowhere involved.

Without the htaccess, the website can be reached from www, or no-www. My point is that you can only "use" one, but being able to access it via www or no-www. Obviously you can see it changes www to no-www, which removes the redundancies that may occur. The DNS just creates the existence of the no-www.

That's how they work together.

um, like, seriously.. what the hell are you even talking about? you're just way out of your depth here. I think you're trying to make some sort of reference to RewriteRules or ServerAliases, but these have nothing to do with htaccess directly (htaccess may allow user account to set some of those directives in Apache), and they definitely have nothing to do with DNS.

no, ESReality can't be accessed by a normal person using a normal computer, without "www." there is no DNS record for it.

if the Server directive has an alias for the domain itself, the site may be accessible by sending a modified Host: header, but this does not mean that the DNS record exists. it doesn't.

I'm 25, and I don't think you understand hyperbole. you sound more dumb with each successive comment.

I am a networking expert, and for that matter I'm an Apache expert. don't tell me what's related and what isn't. DNS has nothing to do with web servers.

Yes you are right, DNS and internet servers have no clear relation at all.

the fuck are you even talking about? seriously, just stop.

Why are you so upset?

Noticed this the other day.

Didn't feel geeky enough to request it ;)

this

put it in your hostfile

gtfo, barbarian

whats the matter?

What you're suggesting is a crude, barbaric way to fix things that obviously no one with proper OCD will accept.

xD

ez fix

It's not a fix, because only the person who added it to hosts would be able to access esreality.com, while billions of other people will continue to heplessly stare in despair at "could not locate remote server" error.

works for me

No one cares about you

who's the barbarian now?

You are and no one cares about you fucking barbarian! Only thinking about yourself!

We need to fix this now!
There are BILLIONS of people trying to reach esreality, but cant :(

Exactly. This might be the real reason why QL isn't so popular, while being 100 times better than other competitive games.

Maybe if this thread gets 100+ comments something will happen.

Its about making ESR that much better!

havent noticed this for years, habbit and favorites.

Make it so.

Who's in charge of the domain anyway? Sujoy???

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/esreality.com
he's been notified of this a long time ago, but it could be hexus' fault too

Can you just humour me and try adding that to the .htaccess for 48 hours please?

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^esreality.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.esreality.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Can you just humour me and try adding that to the hosts for forever please?

127.0.0.1 www.esreality.com

No because it only fixes it for me and no one else and that's not the point.

Is it really as simple as Cname and if so waht is the delay?

the delay is that not enough people edited their hosts file. after you edit the C:\system32\drivers\etc\hosts like I said above, you have to keep the settings for a while until enough people update, and the requests will be cached by the CNAME request handler servers. once that overruns a certain threshold, google will just update the root hosts file and it will work

esreality.com redirects me to www.esreality.com
dunno what's wrong with you ;)

Looks like someone fixed it. Yay!

Nope

works for me.

See the answer of that moron tyryl slightly below. It's probably your browser's feature. But still no one has added CNAME or A record for esreality.com

That moron is on my ignore list. Yea you're right, it's FF doing it.

awesome. you're good at calling people morons after confidently asserting that, hey, things work for me so you must be wrong!!! I'm also a huge fan of your posts about 9/11 conspiracies and other garbage. you're a likeable, intelligent fellow.

oh, am I a moron?

Let me re-check it, wait a sec... Yep, moron you are.

tell me more.

gtfo already

grow the fuck up. seriously.

you first

I'm working on it.

Good.

fuck you.

NO U!

ner

if you have a browser like Chrome, sometimes they have "ease of use" features which actually try prepending www & such before deciding a site can't be reached. this may have happened if you recently upgraded or used a different browser, or you possibly accidentally pressed ctrl-enter, which causes this to happen manually rather than automatically.

It would appear that you are correct, my good man.

^____^

noticed this on my phone.. silly
"www" is so redundant nowdays. when i ask someone like my dad for a website address and he starts with "www.." gets on my nerves so bad :D

very true, www. is like the most redundant thing to date,
you can have sub-domains for subsites, but not the mainsite,
www. should be abolished imho ... or at least every site should have the main-domain point at the main-site and still keep www. for nostalgic reasons

i only have to watch my dad on pc and i get annoyed.

im like, how the fuck did you spawn me.

and we're like, why the fuck did he spawn you