On Fri, August 4, 2006 7:32 am, Greg Knaddison - GVS said:
On 8/3/06, Earl Miles <merlin@logrus.com> wrote:
The www prefix is only redundant if you feel your domain exists only for the web.
Mine uses mail, DNS and other services as well and they may not be on the same machines.
You say that like DNS isn't flexible enough to handle www at http://example.com and mail.example.com records on different IPs. I have several such installations. This is pretty off-topic, but it's worth being right about the technical details if we're going to use them for the basis of drupal's behavior.
Personally I'm with Freso - I see no point in the www and feel that the site should silently drop it if a user inserts it (much like drupal.org does).
Regards, Greg
My personal network has garfieldtech.com on one server, and www.garfieldtech.com on a completely different server on a different network in a different timezone. garfieldtech.com is in my living room and runs my email and jabber server, while www.garfieldtech.com is on a shared host at a professinal hosting company. Going to garfieldtech.com in a browser currently gets you a "welcome to apache" page, I think. :-) No, www.example.com and example.com are NOT the same thing. That's a very overly-web-centric view. DNS is used for a lot of things besides just HTTP routing. That said, I'll "me too" on using whatever the admin uses to access the install page, as that's a pretty good guess as to what the admin wants. Either that or just using the default directory. --Larry Garfield