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The Wilderbeast

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Posted: 19th Aug 2011 21:38

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When it comes to domains I'm a bit of a tard (rather unfortunate as web development is quite a love of mine). Does anyone know why I can only get at my website via http://mywebsite.co.uk and not http://www.mywebsite.co.uk. Domain is on 123-reg and is using the 123-reg nameservers.

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Mike

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bitJericho

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Location: United States

Posted: 19th Aug 2011 21:59 Edited at: 19th Aug 2011 22:03

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yes, because there's no www entry in your DNS records and/or it's not setup in your webserver.

As a general rule of thumb, you want to point all web traffic to www.yourdomain.co.uk. There's a number of reasons but rather than spell it out here, read this wonderful incidence report:

http://status.heroku.com/incident/156

Further, you want to redirect as a 301 all traffic from domain.co.uk to www.domain.co.uk for SEO reasons.

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MrValentine

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Playing: FFVII

Posted: 19th Aug 2011 22:31

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I use 123-reg... game on buddy...

You'll find it in domain settings, DNS Settings read the information there possibly do a reset of settings and follow the defaults.