Site doesn't want to come up without www...

[JHouse]

Hi,

I'm having an odd problem with my site now. I can pull it up fine with the www part preceding the domain, but not without. For example, most of the time it won't come up as infothreads.com, however, it will with www.infothreads.com. Anybody else experience this and ideally have a solution?

Thanks.

[bigbadboy]

You need to speak to your host about that.

[JHouse]

You need to speak to your host about that.

I did a couple times. They said it was a cache issue and after apparently fixing it, I kept having the same problems. However, it just loaded up fine this morning in both FF and IE. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Dang. I want to get this solid before I take it live...obviously don't want to turn people away.

Anybody else experience the same issues?

Thanks.

[JHouse]

Okay, this is weird. I just tried to pull it up again using another version of IE under infothreads.com, but it didn't come up..."page not found or something to that effect." Then I hit enter and it came up fine. Same thing happened with Firefox last night.

Yikes.

[bigbadboy]

Just a suggestion (ie not my fault if it doesn't work!).

Try this is your top level htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.infothreads.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.infothreads.com/$1 [R,L]

Off the top of my head this changes http://infothreads.com into http://www.infothreads.com

[JHouse]

Just a suggestion (ie not my fault if it doesn't work!).

Try this is your top level htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.infothreads.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.infothreads.com/$1 [R,L]

Off the top of my head this changes http://infothreads.com into http://www.infothreads.com

Hey bigbadboy, thanks for your help.

I ended up removing the whole site (held on to the heavily modified css file though) as I think I set up some things incorrectly during the customization process. Plus I removed some modules, then installed some others, then removed some...and you know, things got a little messed up me thinks. Now I'm starting off fresh and gonna make it work.

Oh yeah, funny enough, the site comes up no problem now without the www preceding the domain.

Thanks again for your efforts.